K.R. Royal Quotes

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

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

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

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

If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

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

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

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

Dance with the one who brung ya.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

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

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

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

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

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.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

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

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

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

[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

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

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

I had hoped God would be neutral.

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

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

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

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

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

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