Aggie Flashback Special Edition: Gary Blair on HOF induction

Key Quotes from Gary Blair interview

"Women's basketball is still in the grassroots stage. There have only been 34 national champions named by the NCAA."

"I had a year to think about my speech. Getting the call a year ago was special time in my life."

"I wanted my speech to come from the heart and talk about life. I decided to write it and look up as much as possible. If I was to ad-lib, I could take over the show!"

"My background was in baseball and then decided to go to Dallas to start high school coaching. After being a P.E. teacher for a year, I took a job as the golf coach."

"I coached the golf team for two years before I got into women's basketball. I was the first man in Dallas to coach women's athletics."

"Bill Byrne laid the blueprint for bringing up the level of your whole athletic department and not just football. I believed in Byrne and wanted to come back home to Texas when I took the job."

"I plan on being here a while and I plan on taking this team to the NCAA Tournament every year. I have two hands, there is room for another ring."