Darrell Royal quotes

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Football #Heart

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

#Sports #Football #Character

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

#Fall #Thinking #Pockets

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.
-- Darrell Royal

#Fighting #Long #Littles

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Fun #Boys

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College #Two

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.
-- Darrell Royal

#Motivational #Sports #Team

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

#Football #Winning #Games

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.
-- Darrell Royal

#Luck #Position

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.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Football #Teacher

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

#Sports #Golf #Four

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
-- Darrell Royal

#Real #Men #People

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

#White #Meat #Gone

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

#Sports #Play #Two

Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
-- Darrell Royal

#Mistake #Winning #Energy

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.
-- Darrell Royal

#Horse #Crosses #Feels

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

#Sports #Moving #Golf

Old ugly is better than old nothin'
-- Darrell Royal

#Ugly

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

#Texas #University #Coaches

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
-- Darrell Royal

#One Day At A Time #One Day

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's ***** every day.
-- Darrell Royal

#Dog #Work #Shining

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.
-- Darrell Royal

#Home #Texas #Games

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Media #Profession

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
-- Darrell Royal

#Golf #Ruins #Score

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.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Spring #Boys

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

#Sports #Games #Opponents

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

#Coaching #Victory #Defeat

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

#Sports #Mistake #Yesterday

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.
-- Darrell Royal

#Athlete #Successful #Years

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Running #People

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College #Pigs

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

#Long #Want #Used

I've enjoyed my retirement.
-- Darrell Royal

#Retirement

I'm still healthy as can be.
-- Darrell Royal

#Healthy #Care #Health Care

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.
-- Darrell Royal

#Mean #Done

He's as quick as a hiccup.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College #Hiccups

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #Real #Cutting

We're as average as everyday's wash.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College #Average

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College #One Day At A Time

Dance with the one who brung ya.
-- Darrell Royal

#Football #College

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

#Sports #Coaching #Enjoy

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

#Respect #Player #Games

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Bored #Guy

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.
-- Darrell Royal

#Texas #Years #Assistants

He looks like he needs worming.
-- Darrell Royal

#Leadership #Sports #Needs

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

#Bird #Ems #Pistols

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

#Oklahoma #Games #Freshman

I had hoped God would be neutral.
-- Darrell Royal

#Afterlife #Would Be

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
-- Darrell Royal

#Odds #Years #Lasting Love

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

#Sports #Years #Names