Darrell Royal Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People were concerned about Vince's throwing motion. He's completed enough passes that I don't hear that anymore. He's got a strong arm. He can throw the deep pass without too much stepping forward.

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.

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.

I'm as worked up and excited for this game as I can possibly be. But I know I'm not nearly as worked up as the coaching staff. This is a tremendous match, and I think everyone agrees it's the two best teams.

I'm amazed that there is any dissatisfaction or anything other than complimentary comments about coach Brown.

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.'

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

I think Oklahoma feels a little more passionate about the game, ... They're a smaller state, with only the Red River separating us from them.

I thought it was a great pep talk. I wanted to hug him.

We were so elated about winning the big game, and to have the President of the United States (Richard Nixon) come into your locker room ? if you're not impressed with that, hoss, you just can't be impressed.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

I'm still healthy as can be.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It has really filled a big space, especially since I have been so-called retired - although I haven't noticed my schedule slacking at all.

He looks like he needs worming.

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

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

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.

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

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

I've enjoyed my retirement.

He's as quick as a hiccup.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

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.

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.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Dance with the one who brung ya.

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.

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

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

Both teams had chances to win, ... It finished in a tie, and it probably should have finished in a tie.

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.

We've had some good contests in the last year; at the Rose Bowl, and up there in Columbus, that's about as big as it gets.

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.

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

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

It was the right call and I don't know how a Super Bowl could have been more meaningful.

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

Thank goodness we've progressed to where it's no longer a factor that Vince Young is black. It used to be a big thing.

Alfred takes Darrell Royal down to the south end zone, tried to take him through the band and everything,'' Jack recalled.

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

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

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

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

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 hope so, and I know Coach Brown hopes so.

I never thought (the criticism) was fair. He's taken care of every step except one, and I sure hope he'll get it.

I just enjoy being along for the ride.

He's superb. Spectacular. Somebody said he runs with greased ease and I thought, 'What a perfect description of Vince Young.' It looks like his legs are greased, and his body is greased, and he's so fluid that he's just going to slip off the ones who are lucky enough to touch him.