Darrell K Royal Quotes

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

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#2. On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.

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

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

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#7. 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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#8. My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.

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

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#10. We're as average as everyday's wash.

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#11. We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes.

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

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#14. Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

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

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

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

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

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#20. I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

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#21. 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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#22. We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.

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#23. 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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#24. As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam.

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#25. Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

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#26. Potential means you ain't done it yet.

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

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

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