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.
