Quotes By Darrell Royal

I'm still healthy as can be.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

I used to care more about the score than I do now.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

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.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

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.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.