Darrell Royal
Darrell Royal
Darrell K Royalwas an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas at Austin, compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships, 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 July 1924
CityHollis, OK
CountryUnited States of America
Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
You'd think it ought to be every other year that one team wins in this series. But that's not the way it's worked out. Not in my time. Not as a player, not as a coach.
We were so elated about winning the big game, and to have the President of the United States (Richard Nixon) come into your locker room ? if you're not impressed with that, hoss, you just can't be impressed.
I'm happy for Mack. No one can talk about him not winning a conference title anymore. And hopefully we'll be able to stop talking about how Texas hasn't won a national title since way back when.
That's the game everybody still talks about. Even after all this time. It would be nice to win one again.
I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.
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 have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
I had hoped God would be neutral.
I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
I'm still healthy as can be.