Bum Phillips Football Quotations

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

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

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.

Respect all. Fear none.

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)

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

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.)

The harder we played, the behinder we got.