Darrell Royal Quotes (62 Quotes)

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'm happy for Mack. No one can talk about him not winning a conference title anymore. And hopefully we'll be able to stop talking about how Texas hasn't won a national title since way back when.

I enjoy baseball. I go to the home baseball games, I got to the home basketball games. I don't travel anymore except the Rose Bowl and the Oklahoma football game.

How's that song go 'Things they are a-changing.' But they weren't changing that quickly around here at the time.

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.

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

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

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

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

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.

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't understand it.

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

I've enjoyed my retirement.

Earl blocked a punt the one time I put him on that unit, and then I took him off.

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

He looked like he was going to score every time he touched the ball. They probably could have beaten us every time we played them.

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

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

I feel like this hurts us and works to the advantage of Notre Dame, ... I think our problem for our fans, is to keep their feet on the ground. Like the old saying, 'A little perfume doesn't hurt you if you don't drink it.'

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

There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.

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.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

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

I'm leaving the house at 830 Friday morning they told me to be there by 9 a.m.,

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

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

The good news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football. The bad news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

That's the game everybody still talks about. Even after all this time. It would be nice to win one again.

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

You'd think it ought to be every other year that one team wins in this series. But that's not the way it's worked out. Not in my time. Not as a player, not as a coach.

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

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

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

I'm still healthy as can be.

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

I was contacted a couple of times. But I didn't go for the interview (either time).

I hope so, and I know Coach Brown hopes so.

People want to talk about the national championship, but there's a whole season left to play, that's getting the cart before the horse. There's lots of things that have to fall into place for that to happen.

Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.

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

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

I don't even know how to go about that. Those best teams of all time will never play each other. That's the way to decide who's best. It's about the only way I know.

All the pressure I ever had was self-imposed. I never had any pressure put on me to win. I felt that way in my off-years.

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

I had hoped God would be neutral.

I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.

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