Quotes By Darrell Royal

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

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

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

I've enjoyed my retirement.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

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.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

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.

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

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

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

I had hoped God would be neutral.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

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.