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
All the pressure I ever had was self-imposed. I never had any pressure put on me to win. I felt that way in my off-years.
That's the game everybody still talks about. Even after all this time. It would be nice to win one again.
I didn't feel safe until we led, 217, and had the ball on our last touchdown drive,
People want to talk about the national championship, but there's a whole season left to play, that's getting the cart before the horse. There's lots of things that have to fall into place for that to happen.
I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.
He's superb. Spectacular. Somebody said he runs with greased ease and I thought, 'What a perfect description of Vince Young.' It looks like his legs are greased, and his body is greased, and he's so fluid that he's just going to slip off the ones who are lucky enough to touch him.
How's that song go? 'Things they are a-changing.' But they weren't changing that quickly around here at the time.
I think Oklahoma feels a little more passionate about the game, ... They're a smaller state, with only the Red River separating us from them.
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.
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 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.
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.
They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.