DawgBone
09-01-2007, 12:16 AM
Taken from collegecharlie.com
Southerners are proud of their football heritage, their schools, and theirteams. And they share a deep pride
that goes with being from the South.
George Mooney
The game of football is beginning to gain a foothold in Knoxville.
Knoxville Journal, November 20, 1891
Atlanta will be the scene Saturday afternoon of the first interstate intercollegiate football game. Both teams have been
practicing for weeks.
Atlanta Journal, February 17, 1892
Alabama Polytechnic and Mechanical School at Auburn
defeated the University of Georgia 10 - 0
In six days, we defeated Texas A&M, Tulane, and Mississippi. Our best asset was a marvelous spirit generated
by stamina and fiber.
Henry Seibels, 1899
Seibels captained the University of the South's squad
that traveled 2,000 miles and defeated five teams in six days.
Southern football is not recognized or respected. Boys, here's your chance to change that forever.
Wallace Wade's pre-game remarks prior to Alabama's 20 - 19 victory over Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl.
I'm from Ohio, but if I'd known when I was two what it was like down South, I would have
crawled here on my hands and knees.
Frank Sinkwich, University of Georgia
Someone once said that in the South there are three seasons: football season, recruiting season, and spring pracice.
Bob Bell
Always Remember that Goliath was a 40-point favorite over little David.
Shug Jordan
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a young boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.
Bowden Wyatt
Football changes and so do people. The successful coach is the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.
Bear Bryant
The worst thing a coach can do is stand pat and think the things that worked yesterday
will win tomorrow. Intelligent changes must be made.
Johnny Vaught
I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
Bobby Bowden
I don't believe in miracles. I beleive in character.
Pat Dye
Don't wait to be a great man. Be a great boy.
Shug Jordan
I want players to think as positively as the 85-year-old man who married a 25-year-old woman
and bought a five-bedroom house next to the elementary school.
Charlie Pell
You can't be aggressive and confused at the same time.
Darrell Royal
I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.
Bear Bryant
Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Roger Staubach
Proper conditioning is that fleeting moment between getting ready and going stale.
Frank Thomas
First we will be best, then we will be first.
Lou Holtz
I'd rather face the lions in the coliseum than the Tigers in Baton Rogue.
Bobby Dodd
Tennessee sophomores don't deserve citizenship papers until they have survived an Alabama game.
General Robert Neyland
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.
Erk Russell
I had a lot of offers to go to other schools, but I turned them all down. Clemson was the only place
I could bum chewing tobacco from the professors.
Frank Howard
I'd rather be on probation then get beat by Furman.
Clemson Bumper Sticker
The definition of an atheist in Alabama is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
Wally Butts
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Frank Howard
Almost all games are lost by the losers, not won by the winners.
General Robert Neyland
When they look back at that 9 - 1 season, they don't ask who the nine were.
General Robert Neyland
When in doubt, Punt!
John Heisman
Southerners are proud of their football heritage, their schools, and theirteams. And they share a deep pride
that goes with being from the South.
George Mooney
The game of football is beginning to gain a foothold in Knoxville.
Knoxville Journal, November 20, 1891
Atlanta will be the scene Saturday afternoon of the first interstate intercollegiate football game. Both teams have been
practicing for weeks.
Atlanta Journal, February 17, 1892
Alabama Polytechnic and Mechanical School at Auburn
defeated the University of Georgia 10 - 0
In six days, we defeated Texas A&M, Tulane, and Mississippi. Our best asset was a marvelous spirit generated
by stamina and fiber.
Henry Seibels, 1899
Seibels captained the University of the South's squad
that traveled 2,000 miles and defeated five teams in six days.
Southern football is not recognized or respected. Boys, here's your chance to change that forever.
Wallace Wade's pre-game remarks prior to Alabama's 20 - 19 victory over Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl.
I'm from Ohio, but if I'd known when I was two what it was like down South, I would have
crawled here on my hands and knees.
Frank Sinkwich, University of Georgia
Someone once said that in the South there are three seasons: football season, recruiting season, and spring pracice.
Bob Bell
Always Remember that Goliath was a 40-point favorite over little David.
Shug Jordan
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a young boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.
Bowden Wyatt
Football changes and so do people. The successful coach is the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.
Bear Bryant
The worst thing a coach can do is stand pat and think the things that worked yesterday
will win tomorrow. Intelligent changes must be made.
Johnny Vaught
I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
Bobby Bowden
I don't believe in miracles. I beleive in character.
Pat Dye
Don't wait to be a great man. Be a great boy.
Shug Jordan
I want players to think as positively as the 85-year-old man who married a 25-year-old woman
and bought a five-bedroom house next to the elementary school.
Charlie Pell
You can't be aggressive and confused at the same time.
Darrell Royal
I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.
Bear Bryant
Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Roger Staubach
Proper conditioning is that fleeting moment between getting ready and going stale.
Frank Thomas
First we will be best, then we will be first.
Lou Holtz
I'd rather face the lions in the coliseum than the Tigers in Baton Rogue.
Bobby Dodd
Tennessee sophomores don't deserve citizenship papers until they have survived an Alabama game.
General Robert Neyland
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.
Erk Russell
I had a lot of offers to go to other schools, but I turned them all down. Clemson was the only place
I could bum chewing tobacco from the professors.
Frank Howard
I'd rather be on probation then get beat by Furman.
Clemson Bumper Sticker
The definition of an atheist in Alabama is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
Wally Butts
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Frank Howard
Almost all games are lost by the losers, not won by the winners.
General Robert Neyland
When they look back at that 9 - 1 season, they don't ask who the nine were.
General Robert Neyland
When in doubt, Punt!
John Heisman