"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure."

Erik Russell / Georgia Southern. 

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal.  Nevertheless, Beat Texas."

"They whipped us like a tied up goat."

Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.

 Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

"After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that."

"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."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State

Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

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

Lou Holtz / Arkansas

Bobby Bowden / Florida State

"When you win, nothing hurts."

"Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."

Joe Namath / Alabama

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

After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team: "All those who need showers, take them."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas

John McKay / USC

"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, tide, roll!"

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

Bear Bryant / Alabama

Murray Warmath / Minnesota

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

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

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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

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

Woody Hayes / Ohio State

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

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

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it."

Bob Devaney / Nebraska

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

"In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."  

"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches."

Wally Butts / Georgia

Darrell Royal / Texas

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

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

Paul Dietzel / LSU

John McKay / USC

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

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

 Bear Bryant / Alabama

Darrell Royal / University of Texas

When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.  "No, but you can see it from here."

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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

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

Bear Bryant / Alabama

John Heisman 

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

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

Matty Bell / SMU

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

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

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

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

 Shug Jordan/ Auburn

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

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

Alex Karras / Iowa

Darrell Royal / Texas 

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

Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee