Bum Phillips Quotes

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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

I wanted to go to college and play football.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

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 will always root for the Sooners.

I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.

I'm a backup quarterback at the University of Dayton. I was a one-year starter in high school. I think I got the job in high school because our quarterback left and went to another school.

I had more offers in football than baseball.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.

I'll be eager to definitely be in the mix of kickoff return. I did it in college. I was able to help my team out in college in that area.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

I wanted to play football and see how that went. In my mind, I knew I wasn't good enough to be a pro, but I was having a really fun time doing it. When you're on a college team, you can tell who's going to be a pro or not almost instantly.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.