Darrell Royal Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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

  Darrell Royal

  Leadership, Sports, Football

  "Ex-Texas coach Royal dies at age 88", www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.

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

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Team

• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Football, Winning

• 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.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Running

• 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.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Spring

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

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Mistake

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Long, Want

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Oklahoma, Games

• He looks like he needs worming.

  Darrell Royal

  Leadership, Sports, Needs

  Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Years, Names

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Golf, Four

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Moving, Golf

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Play, Two

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Media, Profession

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Respect, Player

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Coaching, Enjoy

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Bored, Guy

• 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.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Texas, Years

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Texas, University

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

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, White, Meat

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