Top 62 Darrell Royal Quotes
#1. I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.
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#2. But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
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#3. You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.
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#8. As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam.
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#9. 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.
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#10. We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.
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#11. It's more fun when you shoot well and when you have a good score, but that's not a prerequisite to me for having a good time.
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#12. I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
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#13. If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.
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#14. 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.
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#15. The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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#16. I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
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#17. Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
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#18. I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
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#19. When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
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#20. We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes.
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#22. I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
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#23. My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.
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#24. 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.
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#25. He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.
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#26. I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
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#27. Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
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#28. The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
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#29. On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
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#30. Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.
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#31. I used to care more about the score than I do now.
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#33. Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.
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#34. Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.
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#35. They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
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#36. The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
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#37. I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
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#38. I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
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#42. Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.
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#44. For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.
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#45. I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.
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#51. I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
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#52. I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
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#53. You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
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#55. I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.
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#56. Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
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#57. I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
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#58. I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
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#59. The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.
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#60. All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.
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#61. Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.
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#62. You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.
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