Fail Time Quotes by Bum Phillips

1 Fail Time quote by Bum Phillips

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You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

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I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

Respect all. Fear none.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

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Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.