College Sports Quotes:

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

- Paul Dietzel

source: Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014

topic: Football, Character, College, College Sports, Great Football

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

- Knute Rockne

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Notre Dame, Inspirational Football

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.

- Mark Emmert

source: "NCAA leader Mark Emmert decries 'pay for play' as a threat to core of college sports", www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2014.

topic: Sports, Successful, College, Professional Sports, College Sports

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

- Murray Warmath

topic: Football, Team, College, College Sports, Great Football

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

topic: Quitter, College Sports, Great Football, Football Coaching, Football Fan

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Football, Motivational Sports, School, Notre Dame, Deteriorating

When you win, nothing hurts.

- Joe Namath

topic: Softball, Sports, Baseball, Inspirational Softball, Motivational Football

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

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football Coach, College Sports

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

- Bear Bryant

topic: Football, Math, College, Math Class, College Sports

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

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

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Sports, Football, Agriculture, Sports Football, Funny Sports

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

- John Heisman

topic: Football, Boys, Gentleman, Sports Football, Nfl Players

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

- Knute Rockne

source: "Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech". edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2001.

topic: Football, Prayer, College, Notre Dame, Prayer Works

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

- Duffy Daugherty

source: Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

topic: Sports, Football, Contact, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coach

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

topic: Football, Winning, College, Ncaa, Probation

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

- Darrell Royal

topic: Football, Real, Cutting, College Sports, Football Coaching

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

- Spike Dykes

topic: Football, College, Afternoon, College Sports, Football Fan

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

- Frank Leahy

topic: Football, College, Practice, Notre Dame, College Sports

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Dance, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coaching

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

- Bowden Wyatt

topic: Football, Player, College, College Sports, Football Fan

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

- Ralph Jordan

topic: Football, College, Remember, College Sports, Great Football

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

- Joe Manganiello

topic: Sports, College, Play, College Sports

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.

- William C. Rhoden

topic: Sports, Athlete, Player, College Sports, Exhilarating

No, but you can see it from here.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Football, College, Football Coach, College Sports, Football Fan

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

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork, Notre Dame, Inspirational Football Coach

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

- Knute Rockne

topic: Leadership, Football, College, Notre Dame, College Sports

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

- Spike Dykes

topic: Football, College, Goats, College Sports, Football Fan

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

- Woody Hayes

topic: Football, Motivational Sports, College, College Sports, Football Fan

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

- Duffy Daugherty

topic: Football, College, Grades, College Sports, Football Coaching

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

- Bobby Bowden

topic: Football, College, Events, College Sports, Football Fan

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

- Knute Rockne

topic: Football, College, Nfl, Notre Dame, College Sports

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.

- Kristin Armstrong

topic: Sports, College, Thinking, College Sports

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.

- Drew Magary

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Basketball, Sports, Baseball, College Basketball, College Sports

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.

- Dean Smith

topic: Sports, Courage, College, College Sports

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.

- Beano Cook

topic: Sports, Night, College, College Sports, Bucket List

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.

- Sally Jenkins

topic: Sports, Running, College, Ncaa, College Sports

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.

- Kay Bailey Hutchison

source: "What I've Learned: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R, Texas)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

topic: Sports, Cheerleading, Boys, College Sports