Quotes from Rites of Autumn
Heisman Trophy Winner Pete
Dawkins on the Army Brotherhood
"All of us feel we're part of a very
special brotherhood. Douglas MacArther was very much a part of our
world. He talked to us and talked about now our responsibility wasn't just
to our teammates and not just to the Army team, but to the ghosts of a million
soldiers."
Beano Cook
on Legendary Coach Knute Rockne
"The most important figure of the 20th
century in college football is Knute Rockne. He won national titles.
And he made people who had no interest in college football, care about college
football"
Former Notre Dame All-American Joe Theisman
on the Notre
Dame Mystique
"I've been lucky enough to play in world
championships and play in front of the biggest crowds that have ever seen
football games. Nothing compares to that first opportunity when you run
out of that tunnel into Notre Dame Stadium."
Cornell Red Radier Ed Marinaro (A
Heisman Trophy Runner-Up) on Dreaming about College Football
"I dreamt about being an All-American more
than I dreamt about being a pro football player. I remember as a kid
watching the Bob Hope show and seeing them introduce the All-American team and I
thought that was pretty cool."
Former UCLA Bruin Mark Harmon on his
Father's (Tom) Heisman
"I used to try and fall asleep in the shape of the Heisman Trophy, with
a football, you know...you ever tried to sleep that way? Pretty
Hard."
USC Alumnus Lynn
Swann on the Trojans' Rivalry with UCLA
"My senior year, we were playing
UCLA. They had on brand-new powder blue jerseys, they had brand new
shoes. They were pumas with the blue stripe and they just looked, you
know, unbelievably cool. You know? And they had little roses on
their jerseys. They were going to the Rose Bowl. Not! Not that
day. Not that year. You know, we took them apart. I mean, it
was like the best feeling to see those guys over there crying on the sidelines
'cause they weren't getting to the Rose Bowl, because they were so arrogant and
thought this was their time. It's never your time unless you make it your
time. And USC wouldn't allow them to make it their time."
Heisman Trophy Winner and Navy
Midshipman Roger Staubach
on the Army/Navy Rivalry
"The first day (at Annapolis) you get your
head shaved and get an orientation by the superintendent and at the end you say
"Beat Army," so right away you know that this is a big deal."
Wisconsin Alumnus Donna
Shalala on the School's "5th Quarter"
Tradition
"I learned how to do the chicken
dance. It wasn't easy for a stuffy academic like me to learn the chicken
dance. But if you wanted to be part of the "5th Quarter" you had
to learn how to dance like a chicken."
USC Coach John
McKay on African American Sam Cunningham's
Dominating Performance Against an All-White Alabama Team in 1970
"Martin Lurther King was a great man - a
great man - but Sam Cunningham did more to integrate the South tonight than he
did."
Former Auburn Running Back Bo
Jackson on the Auburn/Alabama Rivalry:
"There is a Passion that I can't explain,
you have to grow up in the Southeast. You have to live it, you have to
breathe it, you have to eat it. If Auburn and Alabama played on Sundays, there wouldn't be a word such as church
in the state. There wouldn't be any Sunday school, there wouldn't be anything."
Quotes from Rites of Autumn
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