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Darrell Royal

"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."

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"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."

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"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."

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"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."

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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."

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"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."

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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."

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"I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills."

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"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."

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"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."

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"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."

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"If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier."
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"I was in a profession that received a lot of media."
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"I used to care more about the score than I do now."
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"Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper."
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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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"I had hoped God would be neutral."
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"I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time."
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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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"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 have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."
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