If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a…

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

— Duffy Daugherty

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

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

— Frank Leahy

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

— Paul Dietzel

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

— Ralph Jordan

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

— Darrell Royal

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

— Knute Rockne

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

— Darrell Royal

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

— Erk Russell

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

— Bobby Bowden

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

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

— Spike Dykes

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

— Bowden Wyatt

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

— Spike Dykes

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

— Bear Bryant