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

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

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

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

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

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• I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• I’m still healthy as can be

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Darrell Royal (36)

Birth:	6th July, 1924
Death:	7th November, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

About

Darrell K Royal was born in Hollis, Oklahoma. He was an American football player and coach. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships, 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. He also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League  for one season in 1953. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983.

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