270 Quotes by Bob Stoops

I’m a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.

When you make excuses, you’re just trying to justify failure.

It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn’t give you that much comfort when it’s early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.

Yeah, I've never tailgated.

The coaching life is like a relay race and I'm thankful for my turn and am confident as I pass the baton.

I love college football. I love the game.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.