Alabama Football Quotes

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. ~ Paul Bryant

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama. ~ Bear Bryant

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it. ~ Bear Bryant

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. ~ Bear Bryant

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives. ~ Bear Bryant

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it. ~ Bear Bryant

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven. ~ Bear Bryant

At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships. ~ Bear Bryant

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is. ~ Bear Bryant

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running. ~ Bear Bryant

Don't talk too much or too soon. ~ Bear Bryant

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence? ~ Gene Stallings

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad. ~ Bear Bryant

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program. ~ Bear Bryant

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none. ~ Bear Bryant

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously. ~ Jermain Defoe

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. ~ Bobby Charlton

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~ Woody Hayes

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'. ~ Bobby Robson

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

This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way. ~ George M. Gilbert

What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football? ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player. ~ Ricky Williams

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire. ~ Henry Winter

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd. ~ Johnny Giles

On my drive from Salt Lake City to Moab, Utah, I passed an eighteen-wheeler with mud flaps on the rear tires. The flaps were black and featured the silver silhouette of a very statuesque naked woman. I'm sure you've seen this artistic expression in your travels.

I wondered: has this ploy ever worked, like some kind of perverted fishing lure? ~ Jim Flynn

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living. ~ Kurt Warner

I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you. ~ Daymond John

The only time I can throw 80 yards is when my football-shaped alarm clock goes off in the morning. ~ Jarod Kintz

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio. ~ Frank Lampard

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions. ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I play a lot of basketball and racquetball, as they're both great for your feet and hand eye coordination. Other drills can help as well, such as simply catching a football in distant positions from different heights and velocities. ~ Antonio Cromartie

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales. ~ Ron Greenwood

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer. ~ Brett Favre

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. ~ Mike Rogers

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse. ~ Lynn Swann

Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs. ~ Ron Atkinson

Football is business and business is business. ~ Rinus Michels

The fairest state of them all, this tranquil and beloved domain - what has it now become? A nursery for Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. A monstrous breeding farm to supply the sinew to gratify the maw of Eli Whitney's infernal machine, cursed be that blackguard's name! In such a way is our human decency brought down, when we pander all that is in us noble and just to the false god which goes by the vile name of Capital! Oh, Virginia, woe betide thee! Woe, thrice woe, and ever damned in memory be the day when poor black men in chains first trod upon thy sacred strand! ~ William Styron

I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small. ~ Josh Lucas

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger. ~ Jimmy Armfield

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his name was Eddie and he had a
big white dog
with a curly tail
a huskie
like one of those that pulled sleighs
up near the north pole
Igloo he called him
and Eddie had a bow and arrow
and every week or two
he'd send an arrow
into the dog's side
then run into his mother's house
through the yelping
saying that Igloo had fallen on
the arrow.
that dog took quite a few arrows and
managed to
survive
but I saw what really happened and didn't
like Eddie very much.
so when I broke Eddie's leg
in a sandlot football game
that was my way of getting even
for Igloo.

his parents threatened to sue my
parents
claiming I did it on purpose because
that's what Eddie
told them.

well, nobody had any money anyhow
and when Eddie's father got a job
in San Diego
they moved away and left the
dog.
we took him in.

Igloo turned out to be rather dumb
did not respond to very much
had no life or joy in him
just stuck out his tongue
panted
slept most of the time
when he wasn't eating
and although he wiped his ass
up and down the lawn after
defecating
he usually had a large fragrant smear of
brown
under his tail

when he was run over by an
icecream truck
3 or 4 months later
and died in a stream of scarlet
Charles Bukowski

I come in here and you gotta be here; I'm thinkin' about football, and you gotta be here with your tits and your ass and this tight shrunken clothes and these shriveled jeans, so that's all I'm thinking about from the minute I see you is tits and ass. Football doesn't have a chance against it. It's like this invasion of tits and ass overwhelming my own measly individuality so I don't have a prayer to have my own thoughts about my own things except you and tits and ass and sucking and fucking and that's all I can think about. My privacy has been demolished. You think a person wants that kind of a thing to happen their heads - they are trying to give their problems some serious thought, the next thing they know there's nothing in their brains as far as they can see but your tits and ass? You think a person likes that? ~ David Rabe

The header was cleared off the line by the crossbar. ~ Simon Brotherton

Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated. ~ Megan McCafferty

Leaves are also teaching scientists about more effective capture of wind energy. Wind energy offers great promise, but current turbines are most effective when they have very long blades (even a football field long). These massive structures are expensive, hard to build, and too often difficult to position near cities. Those same blades sweep past a turbine tower with a distinctive thwacking sound, so bothersome that it discourages people from having wind turbines in their neighborhoods. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also estimates that hundreds of thousands of birds and bats are killed each year by the rotating blades of conventional wind turbines. Instead, inspired by the way leaves on trees and bushes shake when wind passes through them, engineers at Cornell University have created vibro-wind. Their device harnesses wind energy through the motion of a panel of twenty-five foam blocks that vibrate in even a gentle breeze. Although real leaves don't generate electrical energy, they capture kinetic energy. Similarly, the motion of vibro-wind's "leaves" captures kinetic energy, which is used to excite piezoelectric cells that then emit electricity. A panel of vibro-wind leaves offers great potential for broadly distributed, low noise, low-cost energy generation. ~ Jay Harman

England are looking better value for 0-0. ~ Barry Davies

I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out. ~ David Boreanaz

Right now I don't want to think about Ali's future, the football games and parties she'll be going to without me, the people she'll meet that I won't even know. There's a ~ Laura Day