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Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.Bum Phillips
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The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.Bum Phillips
3 Quotes & Sayings By Bum Phillips
Bum Phillips was born in 1939. He grew up watching the Dallas Cowboys football team and their head coach Tom Landry. As a teenager he played football at the University of Texas. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 1961, but injured his knee while playing in a game against the Baltimore Colts during training camp
He spent the entire season on injured reserve, so he decided to become a professional wrestler instead. His first match was against Angelo Poffo, brother of wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino, who was also known as "The Strangler." Phillips beat Poffo in about five minutes. Bum then went to work for promoter Verne Gagne, who had just signed Lou Thesz, who would later become one of the top stars in the world.
Bum trained hard for seven months for what turned out to be his only pro wrestling match; he ended up losing to Thesz. Afterwards most of his friends and family were afraid that he would be hurt in a ring and decided they were better off not knowing him anymore. So Bum quit and went back to coaching at the University of Houston and helping young talent like Roger Staubach; he became a professor at UT in 1972 and eventually retired from there in 1996 with over three decades of service.