Darrell Royal

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've enjoyed my retirement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had hoped God would be neutral.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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