Darrell Royal
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.Collection: Saint
I'm still healthy as can be.Collection: Health
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.Collection: Marriage
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.Collection: Cool
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.Collection: Teacher
The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.Collection: Real
There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.Collection: Fighting
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.Collection: Motivational
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fishCollection: Fall
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.Collection: Leadership
Dance with the one who brung ya.Collection: Football
Potential just means you ain't done it yet.Collection: Mean
Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.Collection: Football
I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.Collection: Motivational
Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's ass every day.Collection: Dog
The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.Collection: Motivational
Old ugly is better than old nothin'Collection: Ugly
You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.Collection: Inspirational
You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.Collection: Luck
If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.Collection: Bird
We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes.Collection: Clothes
On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.Collection: Football
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.Collection: Motivational
A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.Collection: Motivational
Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.Collection: Sports
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.Collection: Motivational
They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.Collection: Football
The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.Collection: Inspirational
We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.Collection: Football
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.Collection: Sports
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.Collection: Home
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.Collection: Sports
I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.Collection: Sports
I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.Collection: Bored
I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.Collection: Player
I've enjoyed my retirement.Collection: Retirement
Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.Collection: Horse
My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.Collection: Wife
There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.Collection: Motivational
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.Collection: Sports
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.Collection: Sports
He's as quick as a hiccup.Collection: Football
I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.Collection: Sports
As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam.Collection: Jam
I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.Collection: Golf
I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.Collection: Sports
Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.Collection: Mistake
I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.Collection: Good Times
All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.Collection: Sports
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.Collection: Sports