From: "Robert Boehm" To: "robert" Subject: Fw: Football trueisms one of the best E-Mails Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:55 PM Robert A. Boehm 830-708-8210 830-703-9500 #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.- LouHoltz / 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. I just want to win enough to warrant an nvestigation.' - 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 , 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 /TexasTech #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 #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. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. - Bobby Dodd / Georgia Tech