College Football Quotes

• When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

  Brent Musburger

  Football, Running, Player

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• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

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• Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.

  Gary Danielson

  Football, College, Hair

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• Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Country, College

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• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  John Thorn

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

  Verne Troyer

  Sports, Football, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

  Darrell Royal

  Football, Real, Cutting

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Shoes, Trash Talk

  Steve Spurrier, Buddy Martin (2016). “Head Ball Coach”, p.274, Penguin

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Football, Agriculture

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

  Lou Holtz

  Teamwork, Jobs, Nfl

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• At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

  Erk Russell

  Football, College, Southern

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• There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

  Matty Bell

  Football, Giving, Goal

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• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Goats

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• There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

  Greg Schiano

  Football, College, Men

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• Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

  Darrell Royal

  Football, College, Two

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• Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, Son, College

  Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.121, Taylor Trade Publications

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• You can't spell Citrus without UT

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Great Football, Trash Talk

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• I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

  Walt Garrison

  Football, Texas, Looks

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• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Football, Teenager

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Success, Leadership, Football

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• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, New York, Moving

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• Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Football, Losing

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• That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Winning, Games

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