Barry Switzer

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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: Sports
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It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
- Barry Switzer
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
- Barry Switzer
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People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: Mean
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The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: Keys
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It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: Football
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The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: Mom
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Some people are born on third base.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: People
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The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.
- Barry Switzer
Collection: Two