“I was an undersized, undertalented defensive back. I knocked myself out multiple times running into people. I ended my career without an anterior cruciate ligament. I still don't have one. At a certain point, you realize: I've used up all I've got.”

American former football coach

Bob Stoops is an American former football coach, best known for leading the Oklahoma Sooners from 1999 through the 2016 season, with a brief return on an interim basis for the 2021 Alamo Bowl. He was also a head coach in the XFL, with the Renegades in 2020 and again from 2023 to 2025. At Oklahoma, Stoops compiled a 191 to 48 record and guided the 2000 Sooners to the 2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game and ended in a consensus national title. His Renegades won the XFL Championship in 2023.