Texas Football Quotes

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

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

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

No, but you can see it from here.

You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

When you win, nothing hurts.

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.