In the book “Championship Football” by D.X. Bible, says that the sport of football builds character in young men.
Some say Bible saved Texas football twice. Once as head coach at Texas and once as Texas athletic director when he hired Darrell Royal.
Coach Bible said, "In football, players will learn to consider defeat merely as a temporary setback, and in his heart, he will echo the words of a brave old Scotsman wounded in a battle:
Fight on my men, Sir Andrew said
a little “ hurt but yet not slain;
I’m just lie down and bleed a while,
and then I will rise and fight again.
Bible said that football “is training; .....it turns a young man toward good and useful citizenship. We reiterate that football is a game worth playing, that it is worth playing well, and that it cannot be played well unless it is played hard.”
Bible was so revered that when it was time to rename the newly remodeled stadium, a contingent of important, mighty Longhorns wanted to rename the stadium after D.X. Bible instead of DKR, and the internal battle for naming rights was intense. The whole link to D.X. Bibles coaching philosophy is at
The History of Longhorn Sports
