“The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.”
On Michigan State's flag-planting, as attributed by John Walters, "Cool Hand on the remote" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/john_walters/09/18/campus.blitz/1.html, Sports Illustrated.com, 19 September 2005
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A quote also displayed at the geographical South Pole.
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