Our Annual Irresistible Coaches’ Quotes

You can’t make this stuff up. Few Football coaches will be nominated for Pulitzers yet they do have a way of making a point. These immortal coaching legends actually said the following:

“It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!” Knute Rockne, Notre Dame

“I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, never in a game.” Bear Bryant, Alabama

“At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money, and we don’t have any.” Erik Russell, Georgia Southern

“We didn’t tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.” John McKay, USC

Urban Myer on one of his players: “He doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘fear.’ In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”

“The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a running back, you only need to be dumb.” Knute Rockne, Notre Dame

“Two Texas A&M Players were walking in the woods…One observed, “look, a dead bird.” His friend looked up in the sky and asked “”Where?”

“Why did the Tennessee linebacker steal a police car? He saw ‘911’ on the side and thought it was a Porsche.”

“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, Nebraska

“I never graduated from Iowa…but I was there for two terms; Eisenhower and Kennedy’s.” Alex Karras, Iowa

“I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.” Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State

“After USC lost to Notre Dame 51-0, his post-game message to his players was, “All those who might need showers, take them.” John McKay, USC

“I asked Darrell Royal, head coach at the University of Texas, why he didn’t recruit me?”

He said, “Well Walt, we took a good look at you, and you weren’t very good.” Walt Garrison, Dallas Cowboys