College Sports Quotes

• You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

  Paul Dietzel

  Football, Character, College

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014

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• To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

  Mark Emmert

  Sports, Successful, College

  "NCAA leader Mark Emmert decries 'pay for play' as a threat to core of college sports", www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2014.

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, School

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Math, College

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When you win, nothing hurts.

  Joe Namath

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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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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• I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Real, Player

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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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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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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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• Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Afternoon

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

  Frank Leahy

  Football, College, Practice

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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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• No, but you can see it from here.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, College, Football Coach

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• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Goats

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• There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Motivational Sports, Adversity

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• My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

  Bowden Wyatt

  Football, Player, College

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• Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

  Ralph Jordan

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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