Bum Phillips Quotes

#1. Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

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#2. The road to the Super Bowl runs
through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

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#3. I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

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#4. Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.

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#5. Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

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#6. Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

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#7. I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

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#8. The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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#9. When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

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#10. He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.

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#11. I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

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#12. I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

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#13. I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers ... What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

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#14. How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

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#15. I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

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#16. Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

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#17. I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

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#18. Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

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#19. Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

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#20. The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

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#21. My bum had fallen off. "Seriously!

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#22. An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

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#23. Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

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#24. Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n.

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#25. The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

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#26. Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

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#27. You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

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#28. If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health.

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#29. Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

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#30. The harder we played, the behinder we got.

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#31. There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

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#32. That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

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#33. You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

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#34. Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.

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#35. You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

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#36. I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

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