Barry Switzer Quotes


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.


Citations

Switzer, Barry, and Bud Shrake. Bootlegger's Boy. William Morrow and Company, 1990.

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Barry Switzer
Barry Switzer
  • Born: October 5, 1937
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Coach

Barry Layne Switzer 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.