139 Quotes by Darrell Royal

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Both teams had chances to win, ... It finished in a tie, and it probably should have finished in a tie.

The good news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football. The bad news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football.

We've had some good contests in the last year; at the Rose Bowl, and up there in Columbus, that's about as big as it gets.

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.

Earl blocked a punt the one time I put him on that unit, and then I took him off.

There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.

It was the right call and I don't know how a Super Bowl could have been more meaningful.

I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.