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#1.  “Football is only a game.  Spiritual things are eternal.  Nevertheless, Beat  Texas” — Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.

#2.  “After you retire, there’s only one big event left… and I ain’t ready for that.” — Bobby Bowden/Florida State

#3.  “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” — Lou Holtz/Arkansas

#4.  “When you win, nothing hurts.” — Joe Namath/Alabama

#5.  “Motivation is simple..  You eliminate those who are not motivated.” — Lou Holtz/Arkansas

#6.  “If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, ‘Roll, tide, roll!’” — Bear Bryant/Alabama

#7.  “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.” — Frank Leahy/Notre Dame

#8.  “There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” — Woody Hayes/Ohio State

#9.  “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

#10.  “In  Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.” — Wally Butts/Georgia

#11.  “You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.” — Paul Dietzel/LSU

#12.  “It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.” — Bear Bryant/Alabama

#13.  When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world: “No, but you can see it from here.” — Lou Holtz/Arkansas

#14.  “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

#15.  “There’s one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.” — Matty Bell/SMU

#16.  “Lads, you’re not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.” — Frank Leahy/Notre Dame

#17.  “I never graduated from Iowa, but I was there for two terms — Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.” — Alex Karras/Iowa

#18.  “My advice to defensive players:  Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.” — Bowden Wyatt/Tennessee

#19.  “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.” — Duffy Daugherty/Michigan State

#20.  “Always remember… Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.” — Shug Jordan/Auburn

#21.  “They cut us up like boarding house pie.  And that’s real small pieces.” — Darrell Royal/Texas

#22.  “Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame

#23.  “They whipped us like a tied up goat.” — Spike Dykes/Texas Tech

#24. “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

#25.  “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.” — Bobby Bowden/Florida State

#26.  “Football is not a contact sport — it is a collision sport.  Dancing is a contact sport.” — Duffy Daugherty/Michigan State

#27.  After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: “All those who need showers, take them.” — John McKay/USC

#28.  “If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.” — Murray Warmath/Minnesota

#29.  “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

#30.  “Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.” — Spike Dykes/Texas Tech

#31.  “It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle.  You can hear it.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame

#32.  “We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches…” — Darrell Royal/Texas

#33.  “We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking..” — Wilson Matthews/Little Rock Central High School

#34.  “Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.” — Darrell Royal/University of Texas

#35.  “I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame

#36.  “Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.” — John Heisman