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When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
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The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
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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.
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The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
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You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish
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Dance with the one who brung ya.
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The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.
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Potential just means you ain't done it yet.
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Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
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You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
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Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's ass every day.
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I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
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A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.
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You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
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You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.
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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
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They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
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We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes.
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Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
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If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
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The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
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I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.
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I had hoped God would be neutral.
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I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
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I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
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But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
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We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.
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All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.
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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.
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I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
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For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.
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I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
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The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.
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I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
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I'm still healthy as can be.
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I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
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Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.
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It has really filled a big space, especially since I have been so-called retired - although I haven't noticed my schedule slacking at all.
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I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
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The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.
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There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
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I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
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On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
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My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.
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Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.
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I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.
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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.
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I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.
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