Top 8 Quotes by Barry Switzer

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switzer

Life, Motivational, Sports

"The Unknown Barry Switzer - Poverty, Tragedy Build Oklahoma Coach into a Winner". Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1986.

People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

Barry Switzer

Mean, Oklahoma, People

The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

Barry Switzer

Keys, Nfl, Guy

It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.

Barry Switzer

Football, Mistake, Team

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

Barry Switzer

Heart, College, Nfl

The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.

Barry Switzer

Mom, Play, White