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From: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatort...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ken...@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:58 AM To: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Fw: Football, You Say? Here is one from a friend of mine: College football is God's way of making up for the end of summer. Go Gators!!!! Ken B. (NYC Gator) Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed ________________________________ From: Art Wroble Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:13:59 -0700 (PDT) To: GatorTalk<gatortalk@googlegroups.com> Subject: [gatortalk] Fw: Football, You Say? Subject: FW: Football, You Say? You’ll love this! Cute quotes. #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. Ijust 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 only 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. 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