College football is American football played by teams of students fielded by American universities and colleges, including United States military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States. College football remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport, particularly in the Southern and Midwestern parts of the country.

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• My mom said "you are either going to be in jail, or be killed". So I decided to do something different because I didn't want to be in one of those postions, so I kind of focused on football and took off from there.
  • Vince Young, (University of Texas at Austin) quarterback; on the "negative things" that were going on when he was growing up
• "Iowa and Minnesota play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of a porcine star of a Will Rogers movie. I would like to remind you that this is, on balance, a marvelous nation. "
  • Chuck Culpepper
• "It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
  • Archie Griffin two-time Heisman winner
• "We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time."
  • Vince Lombardi
• "I’m like a lot of coaches. I have a lot of corny saying, but one of them is ‘there are two types of class, there’s first class and there’s no class.’"
  • Dan Hawkins
• "I was tremendously honored to make the All-American team but I don't feel that I have to strain to live up to some mythical something. Yesterday's sports hero is a lot like yesterday's newspaper--you always know there's a fresh one coming tomorrow."
  • Bill Dudley
• "Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones."
  • Darrell Royal
• "When people used to see Wake Forest on the schedule, they used a pen to mark down a `W.' We're at the point now where we at least make them use a pencil."
  • Jim Grobe
• "In the next four years, I'll give you at least one national championship."
  • Ryan Miller, 5-star recruit speaking to Colorado fans through a reporter about the next four seasons for the Colorado Buffaloes football.

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• Sometimes a Pirate beats a Soldier.
  • Mike Leach, Head Coach Texas Tech Red Raiders, Texas Techs win over Texas A&M.

• I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
  • Jack Tatum, former Ohio State Buckeyes defensive back, on the fierce quality of his play

• 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 "Bear" Bryant, University of Alabama Crimson Tide head coach, on his motivational techniques

• Let's win one for the Gipper.
  • Knute Rockne, University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach; imploring his team prior to a 1928 game against then-undefeated Army to win in honor of former Notre Dame halfback George "The Gipper" Gipp

• We want to build a university of which the football team can be proud.
  • George Lynn Cross, University of Oklahoma President; to the Oklahoma state legislature

• "First, Notre Dame has to lose."
  • Darrell Royal on how to win a national championship http://www.hornfans.com/php/includes/random_quotes.php?showAllQuotes=1

• College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
  • Elbert Hubbard http://www.uncoverthenet.com/quotes/dir/560/1.php
• A tie is like kissing your sister.
  • Daugherty, Duffy http://www.hickoksports.com/quotes/quoted01.shtml

• "If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother."
  • Bo Jackson
• "When in doubt, punt!"
  • John Heisman
• "Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."
  • John Heisman
• "Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat."
  • Ken Simonton OSU tailback before the 30th Fiesta Bowl
• A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year."
  • Walter Payton