John Heisman

“Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.”

“When in doubt, punt!”

“Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.”

“A team that won't be beat, can't be beat.”

“Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.”

“Morale is the greatest single factor in successful campaigning.”

“Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors wins.”

“The nearest thing to an impossibility in this world is to lick a proud man.”

“What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber bladder.”