Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. — Tom Landry
Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. — Bum Phillips
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. — Ricky Williams
Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big. — Bobby Lee
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. — Ed Gillespie
Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
Short Texas Football Quotes
Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be. — Robert Ruark
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. — Sam Houston
The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! — Robert E. Lee
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins. — Johan Cruijff
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. — Darius Rucker
Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas — Sam Houston
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho
Texas Football Image Quotes
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
Texas Quotes
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'. — J. Frank Dobie
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war. — George S. Patton
I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers. — William B. Travis
That's the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.
I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love. — Molly Ivins
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. — Janis Joplin
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. — Adam Schiff
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle. — Davy Crockett
Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders. — Tommy Lee Jones
University Of Texas Quotes
During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. — Chris Ware
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be. — Alan Bean
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. — Elizabeth Moon
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again. — Darrell Royal
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. — Darrell Royal
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies. — Eli Wallach
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. — Jim Evans
Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against. — Darrell Royal
My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing. — Zach Anner
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition. — Roger Clemens
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation. — Bob Devaney
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. — Bowden Wyatt
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!" — Bear Bryant
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any. — Erk Russell
Live one day at a time, and never be afraid. — Tammy Faye Bakker
Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad. — Darrell Royal
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. — John Steinbeck
You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life. — Paul Dietzel
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David. — Ralph Jordan
Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel. — Bobby Bowden
I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.' — Walt Garrison
Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died. — Frank Leahy
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. — Alex Karras
They whipped us like a tied up goat. — Spike Dykes
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. — Duffy Daugherty
It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it. — Knute Rockne
They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces. — Darrell Royal
After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that. — Bobby Bowden
It's kind of hard to rally around a math class. — Bear Bryant
I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running. — Bear Bryant
Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon. — Spike Dykes
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. — Pete Hamill
I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it. — Jay Hernandez
We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches. — Darrell Royal
Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them. — Brent Musburger
There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line. — Matty Bell
No, but you can see it from here. — Lou Holtz
If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education. — Murray Warmath
At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am. — Adam Dunn
As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university's leadership to make the Jones ATT Stadium name a reality. — David George
I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state. — Drew Brees
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football. — Jesse Plemons
When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football. — Mike Leach
At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football games than they won on this field. So, years ago, when the historically black college on the South Side of Dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 percent graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field. — Hari Sreenivasan
For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player." — Brad Leland
I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track. — Norah O'Donnell
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. — Dan Jenkins
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