Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Erk Russell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Erk Russell.
Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Erk Russell

Erskine "Erk" Russell was an American football, basketball, Track and baseball player and coach. He was also the defensive coordinator for the Georgia Bulldogs for seventeen years (1964–1981) and head football coach (1981–1989) of the Georgia Southern Eagles. He was also the head coach at Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1950s. He graduated from Auburn University in Alabama where he earned ten varsity letters. He was the last four-sport letterman in the college's history.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.
I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that's a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is 'rate, hike.' We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that's in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They're all good looking and they're all rich. And folks, you just can't beat that and you just can't beat Georgia Southern. And you ain't seen nothin yet!
If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have. — © Erk Russell
If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.
Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.
Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete’s makeup.
The best way to win a game is not to lose it.
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
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