You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

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.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

I used to care more about the score than I do now.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

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

I've enjoyed my retirement.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

I'm still healthy as can be.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

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.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

I learned this about coaching You dont have to explain victory and you cant explain defeat.

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

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.