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Respect all. Fear none.

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Bum Phillips
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: October 18
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Football Coach
Orange
Texas
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Fear

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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.
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You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
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Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
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How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
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When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.
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Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.
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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.
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I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.
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Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.
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Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.
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