Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. – Bear Bryant
Texas hold ’em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it. – David Einhorn
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. – Ginny Brown-Waite
It’s not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas. – Patti Stanger
If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington. – David Dewhurst
I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven’t made it to Australia yet, but someday I’m going. – George Strait
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that. – F. Murray Abraham
My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They’d wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up. – Parker Posey
My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, ‘Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,’ with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing. – Natalie Maines
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the ’70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car. – Duane Chapman
For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries. – Gary Weiss
In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans as the prime target of ranger repression. – Greg Grandin
Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn’t right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? – Dick Cheney
Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn’t know you could be an actor. It didn’t seem like something that actually happened. – Deanna Dunagan
Texas is a country in its own. It’s made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don’t mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that’s really made up of all these encounters, you know? – Gael Garcia Bernal
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It’s the sort of place described as ‘book-lined’, but it’s recently tipped over into ‘fire-hazard’ territory. – Elizabeth McCracken
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. – Dimebag Darrell
I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better. – Dean Ornish
I was born in Texas and I lived there ’till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew. – Michelle Rodriguez
I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas – because they asked me to come and play hip hop. – Coolio
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD. – Candace Kita
One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, carrying visitors on a one and one-half hour trip past Johnson’s birthplace, the family cemetery and ranch house, and through the ranch. – Michael Frome
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids. – Michael Strahan