Rachel Roy's Quotes

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

I believe clothing tell a story.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.

I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.

I find I'm an old soul.

I used to care more about the score than I do now.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

I'm still healthy as can be.

I've enjoyed my retirement.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.