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- Football is a game played with arms, legs, and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Knute Rockne, on the import of intellect and passion to a player's or team's succeeding
- College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America. — University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins, on the putative extra-academic character and corporate, professional nature of the collegiate game in the United States
- If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I [were] wearing, I'd run over her if she [were] in my way. And I love my mother. — Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders, subsequently an inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, on his devotion and the intensity of his play
- My thoughts just before the first real college game of my life: The honor of my race, family, and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field tomorrow. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part. — Iowa State College Cyclones offensive tackle Jack Trice, in a letter to his family one day prior to his sustaining fatal injuries in a game betwixt his team and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. — Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi, on the meticulous and taxing nature of his training camps and team practices
