Heisman Quotes

#1. Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.

Carson Palmer

#2. Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Barry Sanders

#3. It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

Johnny Manziel

#4. The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

Barry Sanders

#6. After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I'm supposed to go to the NFL and so that's what I did. I didn't really have any expectations and I didn't really understand how things worked.

Ricky Williams

#7. You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

Barry Sanders

#8. My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running.

Doug Flutie

#9. My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win the award it's with you for the rest of your life, and I realize that and I'm proud of that. It changed my life.

Archie Griffin

#10. I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

Barry Sanders

#11. The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

Johnny Manziel

#12. I still don't think it's sunk in that I won the Heisman. I'll be able to reflect back on the season, appreciate those types of things and realize that although I wanted to 'be like Mike' when I was growing up, now I get to go out and be in the NFL.

Robert Griffin III

#13. For me, the NFL is the thing that's always been, kind of somewhat like the Heisman, it's been a dream as a kid to be able to have an opportunity to even be talked about being able to play in the NFL.

Johnny Manziel

#14. I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

Johnny Manziel

#15. At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Bear Bryant

#16. Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.

Beano Cook

#17. Never live with someone that won the Heisman.

Kato Kaelin

#18. Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

Michael Waltrip

#19. Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

John Heisman

#20. There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is
inherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.

Mitchell Heisman

#21. To break training without permission is an act of treason.

John Heisman

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

John Heisman

#23. I might be a nihilist except that I don't believe in anything.

Mitchell Heisman

#24. When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

John Heisman

#25. in tactical situations, both in a real game and when solving a problem, look at both side's checks, captures, and threats, usually in that order!

Dan Heisman

#26. If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.

Dan Heisman

#27. When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

Dan Heisman

#28. Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

Dan Heisman

#29. What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?

Mitchell Heisman

#30. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

Dan Heisman

#31. Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems that the most important question is whether there is an important question.

Mitchell Heisman

#32. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?

John William Heisman