College Football Quotes

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

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

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

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

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.'

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

You can't spell Citrus without UT

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

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock

The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.

I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

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

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

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

I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.

As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university's leadership to make the Jones ATT Stadium name a reality.

College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

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

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

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

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

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

A tie is like kissing your sister.

When you win, nothing hurts.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

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

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

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

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

The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.