" — This quote is often attributed to Hayes, but some contend General Robert Neyland of the University of Tennessee first said it.

The university's football teams play at Neyland Stadium, one of the nation's largest stadiums, which is often sold out on game day.

Neyland is flanked by the Thompson-Boling Arena, which has broken several attendance records for college men's and women's basketball.

Neyland is a town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying on the River Cleddau and the upstream end of the Milford Haven estuary.

Neyland has a long sporting history and is home to many sporting groups.

" The location of the body farm is actually near the school's Medical Center, however the bones are stored in Neyland Stadium.

Neyland Stadium is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Neyland Stadium is the third largest non-racing stadium in the United States, the sixth largest non-racing stadium in the world, and the largest stadium in the Southeastern Conference.

The stadium is named for University of Tennessee football coach Robert Neyland ( 1892 – 1962 ).

Neyland is also used for local high school playoff games.

Neyland Stadium is occasionally used for concerts, political rallies, and religious gatherings.

With its good-natured regional references to a carefree lifestyle, the singing of " Rocky Top " by Tennessee college students and alumni at sports venues such as Neyland Stadium is well established.

The name " Rocky Top " is sometimes used as a nickname for East Tennessee, the city of Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee ( especially its two major athletic venues, Neyland Stadium and the Thompson-Boling Arena ).

Neyland is often referred to as one of the best, if not the best, defensive football coaches ever.

Neyland Stadium at the University of Tennessee is not only named for " The General ", but was designed by him.

Since Neyland is portrayed in the kneeling position rather than standing, the statue is nine feet tall ( a standing statue would have stood 12 feet tall ).

The Cleddau Bridge ( Welsh: Pont Cleddau ) is a toll bridge on the A477 road that spans the River Cleddau between Neyland and Pembroke Dock, Wales.

Although the T formation is used almost exclusively at Tennessee home games in Neyland Stadium, it has been done at other venues, most notably at the 1986 and 1991 Sugar Bowl.

It is the tenth largest stadium in the NCAA and the fourth largest in the Southeastern Conference, behind Neyland Stadium at Tennessee, Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, and Sanford Stadium at Georgia.

The total capacity after expansion has not been verified, but speculation is that it will exceed 100, 000 bringing it near to or above the capacity of its Southeastern Conference counterparts Neyland Stadium and Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The Federal Works Projects Administration, which also arrived in the 1930s, helped build McGhee-Tyson Airport and expand Neyland Stadium.

The University of Tennessee retired White's jersey at a halftime presentation on October 1, 2005 during their game against the University of Mississippi, the third such retirement in the modern era of football at the school ; a commemorative sign was also unveiled in the south end of Neyland Stadium.

Neyland was also an innovator.

During his time as the Volunteers ' head basketball coach, he also worked as the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team from 1938 to 1942, and as an assistant football coach for the Tennessee Volunteers football team under head coaches Robert Neyland and John Barnhill from 1938 to 1946.

Although Neyland Stadium in Knoxville was slightly closer to Nashville, it was deemed too big ( at over 102, 000 seats ) for an NFL team.

Neyland was a small fishing village in the parish of Llanstadwell, but in 1856 it became the site for the western terminus of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway with a transatlantic terminal for the largest ships of the time.

Neyland was partially reprieved because silting of Goodwick harbour restricted its use, and for a little over one hundred years, Neyland was a busy rail and sea port.

The University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium in Knoxville was three hours east of Nashville, but was deemed too large ( at 102, 000 seats ) for an NFL team.

Bobby Dodd was a quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1928 to 1930, playing under legendary coach Robert Neyland.

Neyland, the man credited with making the Vols a national football power, coached the team from 1926 – 1952, with two interruptions for military service.

On April 8, 2009, it was announced that Neyland Stadium was one of the 70 stadia named for the United States ' bid to either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.

Attendance has been recorded for Vol football games at Neyland Stadium since 1946.

Through the 2010 season, the Tennessee Volunteers football team had compiled a record of 432 wins, 109 losses, and 17 ties at Neyland, for a winning percentage of. 789.

implemented the Neyland Stadium Master Plan, a long-term strategy for expanding, renovating, and maintaining the stadium.

Atkins originally went to Tennessee on a basketball scholarship, but once football coach General Robert R. Neyland saw his combination of size and agility, he was recruited for the grid team.

Neyland holds the record for most wins in Tennessee Volunteers history with 173 wins in 216 games, six undefeated seasons, nine undefeated regular seasons, seven conference championships, and four national championships.

Shortly before his death, Neyland drew up plans for a major expansion and renovation to the Vols ' home stadium, Shields-Watkins Field.

UT renamed the stadium Neyland Stadium in his honor before the 1962 season, and the plans he drew up were so far ahead of their time that they have been used as the basis for every major expansion since then.

Neyland attended Burleson Junior College in his home town of Greenville, Texas for a year and then transferred to Texas A & M playing football a year before receiving an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he starred as a football lineman and baseball pitcher and was the academy boxing champion.

Several months prior to his death, Neyland began working on a plan for supporters of UT athletic teams to show their interest in UT's academic programs by offering scholarships to attract outstanding student scholars to the University.

During the 1930s, Neyland began having his teams recite seven sentences that he felt summarized everything it took to win a game.