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Darrell Royal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I had hoped God would be neutral.

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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 was in a profession that received a lot of media.

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I'm still healthy as can be.

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

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

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

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

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