"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