Darrell Royal

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

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

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

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

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

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

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

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.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.