Bum Phillips
# Bum Phillips

Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips (29 de septiembre de 1923 - 18 de octubre de 2013) fue un entrenador de fútbol americano y el padre de Wade Phillips, el coordinador defensivo de Los Angeles Rams. "Bum" Phillips entrenó en la escuela secundaria, la universidad y los niveles profesionales.

## Citas

* "There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired."
* "I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches."
* "I've never seen a hammer and tong game like that one."
* "The harder we played the behinder we got."
* "Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors." (Explaining why he wouldn't wear his cowboy hat in a domed stadium)
* "Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team."
* "I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...what for? Houston isn't on our schedule." (Source: The Book of Sports Lists)
* (To an official) "Hey, can I, can I tell you one thing? That's three holding penalties on one football team in a quarter and a half. (Pauses) That ain't funny."
* (To an official) "Now, you can't do that! If you do it, I'm telling you you'll have more hell over it than a little bit."
* (after playing the Steelers for the fifth time in two seasons and planning to meet them a sixth time) "The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.
* (20 years after playing Pittsburgh six times in two seasons) "Don't take long to spend all the time you want in Pittsburgh."
* (referring to Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula) "He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n."
* (referring to Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon) "That boy could throw a football through a car wash and not get it wet."
* (when asked about Oilers RB Earl Campbell's inability to finish a one-mile run in training camp) "When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him."
* (when asked by Bob Costas why he took his wife on all of the Oilers' road trips) "Because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye."
* "Last year we knocked on the door. This year we beat on it. Next year we're going to kick the son of a bitch in."
* of Earl Campbell, "I don't know if he's in a class by himself, but I do know that when that class gets together, it sure don't take long to call the roll."
