Quotes from Darrell Royal

I've enjoyed my retirement.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm still healthy as can be.

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

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

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

I had hoped God would be neutral.

My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.

The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

He looks like he needs worming.

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

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.

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

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

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