College Sports Quotes

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

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

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

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

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

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

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

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

No, but you can see it from here.

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

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

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

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.

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.

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

When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can't do that anymore.

I think the other thing that's interesting about the women's peloton is that if you ask what their background is most have played college sports, and a lot of times have come off of injury and have gotten on a bike. A lot of us start post college in our mid 20's unlike in Europe where they start 10 years before that.

The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

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.

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

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

When you win, nothing hurts.

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.

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

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

Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.