"Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games"
-- Darrell Royal
"Give me a guy with his jaw stuck out, his shirt sleeves rolled up and who swaggers when he walks. I know its Harry High School, but if I have to make a choice I'll take the cocky, over-confident, conceited kid, over the one who has so much humility he can't look you in the eye"
-- Darrell Royal
"A head coach is guided by this main objective: dig, claw, wheedle, coax that fanatical effort out of the players. You want them to play every Saturday as if they were planting the flag on Iwo Jima."
-- Darrell K Royal
"Every coach likes those players who, like trained pigs, will grin and jump right in the slop."
-- Darrell K Royal
"There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting."
-- Darrell K Royal