07/10/2024
COLORFUL SPEECH
Take this lighthearted break and enjoy a brief brake from lifeâs load.
Coaches are aces at using colorful speech. These comments by former coaches illustrate this.
âSon, you got a good engine, but your hands arenât on the steering wheel.â
Bobby Bowden
âLine up by height alphabetically.â Bill Peterson
âGentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.â John Heisman
âIf you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, âRoll Tide, roll!â Bear Bryant
âIf lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a good education.â Murray Warmath
âWe didnât tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.â
John McKay
âIâve found that prayer works best when you have big players.â
Knute Rockney
When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. âNo, but you can see it from there.â Lou Holtz
âLads you are not to miss practice unless your parents or you died.â
Frank Leahy
âI never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there two terms - Trumanâs and Eisenhowerâs.â Alex Karras
âThey cut us up like a boarding house pie, And thatâs real small pieces.â
Darrell Royal
âThe job of a football coach is to make men do what they donât want to do, in order to achieve what theyâve always wanted to be.â Tom Landry
âI celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, Iâm done.â Tom Osborne
âA metaphor is one thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.â They are often colorful speech. The Bible is full of metaphors, such as, the bread of life, the light of the world, the vine, and the door. All of these illustrate a characteristic metaphorically.
The Old Testament is littered with them, none more peculiar than these two.
âAs a ring of gold in a swineâs snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretionâ (Proverbs 11: 22).
âConfidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth and a foot out of jointâ (Proverbs 25: 19).
Few Bible passages have a grouping of more metaphors that Psalm 18: 2. Read them and meditate on each. âThe Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my strongholdâ (Psalm 18:2)
Dr Nelson Price