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Wikipedia Summary for Barry Switzer
Barry Layne Switzer (born October 5, 1937) is a former American football coach and player. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and 4 years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma, and led the Cowboys to win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is one of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl, the others being Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll.
The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.
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.
People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.