Quotes from Darrell Royal


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


I had hoped God would be neutral.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


I've enjoyed my retirement.


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


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 count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.