Top 100 Quotes About College Football
#1. Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.
Audie Cornish
#2. It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.
Doug Flutie
#3. Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.
Gary Danielson
#4. I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.
Frank Deford
#5. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.
Frank Deford
#6. More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.
Evan Spiegel
#7. I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.
Robert Griffin III
#8. I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Art Donovan
#9. College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#10. College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
Nick Saban
#11. I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
Chris Bauer
#12. When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.
Brent Musburger
#13. I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.
Ray Lewis
#14. I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)
Bum Phillips
#15. My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.
Matt Barr
#16. College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.
Rick Reilly
#17. What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.
Gordon Gee
#18. College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
Noel Gallagher
#19. Michigan State already has one of the coolest mascots in college football, but if Sparty ever needs a day off, Javon Ringer could do the job. After all, he already does just about everything else for MSU.
Javon Ringer
#20. Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here.
Gus Malzahn
#21. College football was a religion in Alabama, and Saturdays in the fall were holy days.
Lexi George
#22. The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.
Alyssa Milano
#23. Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.
David Letterman
#24. I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.
Todd Helton
#25. No one in college football or the SEC can tackle me by themselves.
Todd Gurley
#26. I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Lou Holtz
#27. A college football game is a superb analogy for religion.
Jonathan Haidt
#28. I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.
Chad Pennington
#29. A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.
Donal Logue
#30. But I don't know how I really felt about Johnny Manziel, but I feel like now everyone hates him. He's quickly becoming my favorite player in college football.
Joe Flacco
#31. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
H.L. Mencken
#32. More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
Stephen Rodrick
#33. I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.
Lewis Black
#34. Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
Roy Blount Jr.
#35. The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins
#36. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger
#37. In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.
Stephen Rodrick
#38. You'll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I'm dead, so who cares?
Beano Cook
#39. I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
Frank Deford
#40. Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.
Beano Cook
#41. They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
John Madden
#42. I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
Verne Troyer
#43. In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock
Bob Griese
#44. Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.
Lee Majors
#45. There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.
Stephen Rodrick
#46. The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
John Thorn
#47. College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss of humanity.
H.L. Mencken
#48. I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.
Erin Andrews
#49. Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.
Ben Roethlisberger
#50. A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.
Matt Holliday
#51. 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
#52. My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
Dan Jenkins
#53. If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Ricky Williams
#54. Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.
Harold Lloyd
#56. Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country - pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school football, the division for the biggest schools in the state.
H. G. Bissinger
#57. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.
Pat Toomay
#58. If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.
Antonio Gates
#59. Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.
Spike Dykes
#60. Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.
Roger Kahn
#61. I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.
Tom Watson
#62. I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.
Greg Bryk
#63. We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.
Darrell Royal
#64. You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.
Ruben Studdard
#65. I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.
Jeff Fisher
#66. In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
Cam Newton
#67. There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
Robert Griffin III
#68. I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
Ricky Williams
#69. I love football. I played it into two years of college.
Peter Landesman
#70. That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
Bobby Bowden
#71. If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.
Ryan Leaf
#72. The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
Knute Rockne
#73. I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.
Harmon Killebrew
#75. You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.
Chip Kelly
#76. I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.
Bear Bryant
#77. I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
Andrew Luck
#78. Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.
Lou Holtz
#79. I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.
Robert Griffin III
#80. I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.
Melissa McCarthy
#81. There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.
Greg Schiano
#82. You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.
Paul Dietzel
#83. Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
Darrell Royal
#84. I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.
Woody Hayes
#86. If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
John Malkovich
#87. The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.
Jay Leno
#88. I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.
Jerry Glanville
#89. We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.
Tony Dungy
#90. When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
Kenny Chesney
#91. The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college.
Ernest Hemingway,
#92. Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.
Bobby Bowden
#93. On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
Darrell Royal
#94. Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
Doug Flutie
#95. It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.
Bear Bryant
#96. I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
Peter Landesman
#97. Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
Lou Holtz
#98. For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
Tony Dungy
#99. I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.
Matthew Fox
#100. I wanted to go to college and play football.
Barry Larkin
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