Top 66 College Football Quotes

I just love that in college football, we get these big nonconference matches early. It’s exciting for everybody. It’s exciting for the fans and the players as well.

There are a lot off very good college players after a year or two who may not want to play that third year of college football, may need to earn a little money, support the family.

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

You’ve got to be diversified enough. That’s the truth in the SEC and in college football.

I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

There’s a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.

I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It’s a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.

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.

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.

When you consider the depths to which major college football coaches are willing to sink in order to protect their programs, Tyrann Mathieu’s dismissal from LSU is staggering.

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.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I’m a sports fan of all sports – college basketball, MLB, NFL – and as a fan, the only sport I feel every week I feel urgency is college football.

College football, for me, was sacred. Right away, first time I watched it on TV, there was just something about the passion, the energy that was just different. It always just felt right when I watched it.

New York is a highly educated city. People who are educated generally go to college. People who go to college who are men love college football.

For me at least, there’s a need for normalcy when I get home. I’ve always been a homebody. When I get home, it’s just a matter of doing the chores that I need to do to get back on the road and then just plopping down in front of some Netflix or college football. I love college football.

It’s Alabama. They’ve been the powerhouse. The face of college football.

I love that about college football. I love all the funky matchups. I love the Funky Cold Medina Poulan Weed Eater Bowl. I love all of that. I like the crazy games. There’s obviously a market for it because them TVs love to put it on there.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico – Lovington, New Mexico – I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

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.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Any recognition I’ve received, or been considered for, honors all of the coaches, players and staff that have been a part of our program for many years. They are the reason my name is on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot, so most importantly I thank them.

I’m not a huge college football fan. The reason I’m not is because there’s not a playoff.

They say it doesn’t get any more Jersey than 24-hour diners. Of course, they say the same thing about women with big hair, hapless college football teams and governors who tell their wives they’re gay on national television.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

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.

I say college football began with Rockne.

After everything that’s happened, I’m sitting here in my last year of college football. I’m just happy. I’m in a good spot.

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.

College football and particularly the quarterback position is a performance-based deal.

You name it, I’ve done it. I’ve gotten to live so many people’s dreams. People dream of playing in the NFL, of having a hit CD, of being in Hollywood movies, or being a pro wrestler, or playing college football. They dream of being able to travel the world. I’ve done all that.

The paid professionals who navigate the complications of playing their sport during a pandemic at least share in the financial rewards. Far worse off are college football players – who lack the union protection and financial resources of their professional counterparts.

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.

What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.

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.

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, I was a college football junkie. My mom attended the University of Iowa and so I can remember I used to run around the backyard in a number 6, Tim Dwight Iowa jersey when I was very little.

I’m thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It’s a privilege.

I played college football for free. I had to pay to play, really.

I think first and foremost, you’ve got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you’ve got to be able to run the football to have success.

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.

Speed has always been there in college football.

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.

I’ll tell you, people remember every single pick I make against their team, they really do. There’s just so much passion in college football, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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.

I feel I have proved myself as one of the best receivers in college football from Day 1. I believe I can easily make that next step to the NFL and do the same.

Ultimately, college football is a huge passion of mine. In my opinion, I really feel ESPN owns college football. The only way I think I could have left ESPN was for an opportunity to call NFL games. That was the opportunity I had at Fox.

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.

I’m an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she’s a Florida State alum, so I wouldn’t have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we’re weird.

I don’t hate anyone, especially any college football team.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

I’m always playing Madden, Halo, and College Football. If I’m at home, chances are I’m playing one of those three. I’ve had every videogame console since Nintendo.

When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I’m so grateful that actually became a reality – and it became a reality in a small town.