Darrell Royal Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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• If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn’t eat ’em.

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

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• 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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• I’ve enjoyed my retirement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Darrell Royal (36)

Birth:	6th July, 1924
Death:	7th November, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

About

Darrell K Royal was born in Hollis, Oklahoma. He was an American football player and coach. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships, 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. He also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League  for one season in 1953. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983.

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