Texas football Quotes

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

— Spike Dykes

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

— Duffy Daugherty

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

— Bear Bryant

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

— Tom Landry

No, but you can see it from here.

— Lou Holtz

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

— Knute Rockne

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

— Tammy Faye Bakker

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

— Darrell Royal

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

— Bowden Wyatt

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

— Bobby Bowden

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

— Bob Devaney

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

— Bear Bryant

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

— Paul Dietzel

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

— Erk Russell

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

— Spike Dykes

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

— Adam Dunn

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand…

— Jay Hernandez

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took…

— Walt Garrison

I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it…

— Powers Boothe

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

— Ralph Jordan

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

— Darrell Royal

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

— Darrell Royal

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

— Matty Bell

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

— Murray Warmath

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

— Bear Bryant

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

— Bobby Bowden

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

— Alex Karras

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

— Frank Leahy

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

— Knute Rockne