Barry Switzer
Barry Switzer
Barry Layne Switzeris a former American football player and coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He helped the Cowboys win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is one of only three head coaches to win both a college football...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 October 1937
CityCrossett, AR
CountryUnited States of America
The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.
The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.
Some people are born on third base...
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.
People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.