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

 Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.

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

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

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

 Bobby Bowden / Florida State

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

 Lou Holtz / Arkansas

 "When you win, nothing hurts."

 Joe Namath / Alabama

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

 Lou Holtz / Arkansas

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

 Bear Bryant / Alabama

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

 Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

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

 Woody Hayes / Ohio State

 "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 / Nebraska

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

 Wally Butts / Georgia

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

 Paul Dietzel / LSU

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

 Bear Bryant / Alabama

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

 Lou Holtz / Arkansas ...

 "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 / Alabama

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

 Matty Bell / SMU

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

 Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

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

 Alex Karras / Iowa

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

 Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

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

 Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

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

 Shug Jordan / Auburn

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

 Darrell Royal / Texas

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

 Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 "They whipped us like a tied up goat."

 Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

 "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 / Oklahoma State

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

 Bobby Bowden / Florida State

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

 Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

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

 John McKay / USC

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

 Murray Warmath / Minnesota

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

 Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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

 Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

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

 Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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

 Darrell Royal / Texas

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

 Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School

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

 Darrell Royal / University of Texas

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

 Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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

 John Heisman