Bum Phillips Quotes

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers ... What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

The road to the Super Bowl runs
through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.