Darrell Royal Quotes

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

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

Potential means you ain't done it yet.

He's as quick as a hiccup.

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

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

I had hoped God would be neutral.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

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

I'm still healthy as can be.

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.

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 don't have the proudest moment in football.

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

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

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

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

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

Dance with the one who brung ya.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.