Quotes By Darrell Royal

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm still healthy as can be.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I've enjoyed my retirement.