Best 32 quotes of Bum Phillips on MyQuotes

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

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

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

Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Respect all. Fear none.

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

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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

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

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

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

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

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

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

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

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