Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Darrell Royal

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Darrell K Royal was an All-American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University (1954–1955), the University of Washington (1956), and the University of Texas (1957–1976), compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. 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. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for one season in 1953. He never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career. Royal was an All-American at the University of Oklahoma, where he played football from 1946 to 1949. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.

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

Darrell Royal

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

Darrell Royal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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'm still healthy as can be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I've enjoyed my retirement.

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I had hoped God would be neutral.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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He looks like he needs worming.

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

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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.

Darrell Royal

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

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

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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.

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He's as quick as a hiccup.

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

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Old ugly is better than old nothin'

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

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

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

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Dance with the one who brung ya.

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Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

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

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I don't have the proudest moment in football.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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