College Football Quotes - Page 2

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

  Lou Holtz

  Teamwork, Jobs, Nfl

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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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• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Goats

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• You can't spell Citrus without UT

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Great Football, Trash Talk

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

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Winning, Games

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

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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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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• I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

  Steve Spurrier

  Player, Two, Keys

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

  Frank Leahy

  Football, College, Practice

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• I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

  Bob Devaney

  Football, Winning, College

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• No, but you can see it from here.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, College, Football Coach

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• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

  Knute Rockne

  Leadership, Football, College

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• If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

  Murray Warmath

  Football, Team, College

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