Brett's Two-Cents

Hello, everyone! School is back in session this week (stop celebrating, parents!), but of course the REALLY big news is that, yes, once more, it’s the beginning of the COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON (no comments, Ally!). In honor of this annual, and yet MOMENTOUS, occasion, I offer you the following quotes from college football coaches, some of them inspirational and some of them. . . well, not so much.

The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.

—Vince Lombardi

A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.

—Tom Landry

Lads, you’re not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

—Frank Leahy

There are two pains in life. The pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

—Nick Saban

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

—Vince Lombardi

We didn’t tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.

—John McKay

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

—Lou Holtz

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

—Murray Warmath

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

—Lou Holtz

We’ll fight them until Hell freezes over, then we’ll fight them on the ice.

—Dutch Meyer

Always remember, Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

—Shug Jordan