Posted on 09/09/2020 3:18:56 AM PDT by sodpoodle
REMINDS ONE OF BETTER DAYS GONE BY !
Gentlemen it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football
-John Heisman
"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
" It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!”
- Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money, and we don't have any."
– Erik Russell / Georgia Southern
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
- Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Notre Dame
"When you win, nothing hurts."
- Joe Namath / 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
"I never graduated from Iowa. I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's."
– Alex Karras / Iowa
"My advice to defensive players is to 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
"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me ." 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 post-game message to his team was; "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
"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."
- John McKay / USC
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
- Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
Ohio State's Urban Meyer on one of his players: "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.”
Why do Auburn fans wear orange? So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.
What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? Drool.
How many Michigan State freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb? None. That's a sophomore course.
How did the Auburn football player die from drinking milk? The cow fell on him.
Two Texas A&M football players were walking in the woods. One of them said, "Look, a dead bird." The other looked up in the sky and said, "Where?"
What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit? "Will the defendant please rise."
If three Rutgers football players are in the same car, who is driving? The police officer.
How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend? There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.
What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room? A full set of teeth
University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week. The other half will have to dress themselves.
How is the Kansas football team like an opossum? They play dead at home and get killed on the road
How do you get a former University of Miami football player off your porch? Pay him for the pizza
Favorite John McKay(NFL days) quote:
When asked about his team’s execution:
“I’m in favor of it.”
bump for later so I can find when the season starts.
Busiest day the B1G has had all year. Getting closer to finalizing October 10th fall football season.
Thanks for posting! What a great way to start the day with some humor.
Years ago, Texas Tech University football program was on the deep end of losing. Maybe TCU was worse, and they always seemed to beat Tech; and Tech seemed to be able to beat the Aggies.
The “wisdom” out there was: “If you want to go to a good university that doesn’t have college football, go to Texas Tech.”
Eventually coaches Spike Dykes and Mike Leach came along and got them some wins.
I’ll take smartball over muscle ball any day
My favorite Paul Bryant (AKA: Bear) saying.= “Alabama players need only to be 3 things: HOSTILE, MOBILE & VIRILE”.
Yours, TMN78247
Some great names on that list.
I am an avid Notre Dame and UCLA fan, and I’ve hated USC ever since I was a little kid. That being said, John McKay was a very good coach, and his quips always put a smile on my face.
Back in the 1960s an Alabama player was being interviewed, and was asked what lessons he had learned from coach Bear Bryant. The kid just looked at the reporter, and said, “Hit.”
My two favorite teams:
Michigan...
And whoever is playing Notre Dame...
Mine are Notre Dame...and whoever is playing USC.
what is football?
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I wish the NFL would ask itself this question and do two things: 1) Ditch a lot of the lame, modern rules that have turned the game into glorified flag-football, and 2) Stop the political statements by players and coaches.
I am an avid Bama fan and recognize how far both Bama and ND have fallen when it comes to leadership (i.e. both universities are by leftist turncoats). Bear Bryant and Knute Rockne would be sickened if they saw the current state of affairs.
I am an avid Bama fan and recognize how far both Bama and ND have fallen when it comes to leadership (i.e. both universities are RUN by leftist turncoats). Bear Bryant and Knute Rockne would be sickened if they saw the current state of affairs.
I could throw in an anecdote whose punchline is “Because nine hundred and ninety nine are not enough.”, but I won’t do that now because it’s a moot point.
I’m taking the season off. I’m gonna miss it, but I’m gonna have other stuff to do.
Here’s a couple of old ones from my part of the world.
What does the “N” on the side of Nebraka’s helmet’s stand for? Knowledge
What do Tom Osborne and Billy Graham have in common? They are the only two men in America who can make 76,000 people stand up and yell “Jesus Christ” at the same time.
Why does Tom Osborne eat his cereal on a plate? Because if he put’s it in a bowl he will lose it.
Why do all the trees in Kansas lean south? Because Oklahoma sucks.
Sounds 100% like Paul Bryant to me. = Fyi, I’m an AUBURN & University of TX fan.
Yours, TMN78247
That was always one of my favorites
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