Words matter. These are the best Mack Brown Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You need to compete.
I couldn’t get out of my mind how miserable I’d been at the end of 10-win seasons. I’d gone from passion to obsession the last few years at Texas.
I want to go back to North Carolina to do what I started to do in coaching, Not what it got to be at Texas.
I’m way too competitive and have way too much pride to leave something bad.
When you lose your children, there is nothing worse than that in the world.
I’ve never been a guy that hated our rivals.
I learned that when I go in a store and a person of color goes in the store, that they might watch them because they’re afraid they’re gonna steal something. They’re not gonna watch me because I’m white.
I have never given myself credit for anything.
Communication helps you build up trust and respect… It gets everyone on the same page.
You went into the business to change kids lives and all the sudden you forget.
If you’re not careful, you start trying to be somebody you’re not to please everybody.
Georgia is one of the best states there is.
We are lucky in Chapel Hill to have the most brilliant medical people anywhere in the country.
You get into coaching because you love the game and you love the players. And if you’re not careful, you win so many games it becomes about the wins more than anything else.
I love being around the recruits. I like seeing them in the office. I like having the 1-on-1 conversations with them.
Sick kids getting a little joy out of a football game, it doesn’t get better than that.
When a coach comes in and takes over a new program, he’s adopting 125 new stepchildren. Some of them love the place but a lot of them love the coaches, they came for a different offense, they came for a defense, and every coach is different. All have some similarities but all are different.
When you have 82 plays, you should have more than 21 points.
To sit around and blame myself for everything that goes bad or credit myself for everything that’s good, that’s stupid.
I learned that a person of color might be afraid to let their children go drive a car, which is awful.
One day, I just ended up thinking, ‘You know what? If we get to 13-0, it’s not me. If we go 10-2, it’s not me.’
I’ve always liked our rivals.
Without communication we have nothing.
People mouth all the time. I was involved in a rivalry with N.C. State where two coaches tackled each other in the middle of the field after the game. That one was kind of nasty, I thought.
What I’ve learned is we need to worry about us.
Good kids want to stay where their parents can see them play.
You’ve got to protect your quarterback.
I was making $38,500 and Oklahoma offered me $125,000 to be the offensive coordinator and I thought, ‘Hmm, I probably should look at this.’
We can’t control how the other guys play and we’ve got to worry about us, and we’ve got to play to the best of our ability every week.
This is a game, you’re supposed to enjoy it, and I’m afraid a lot of the years I had, I was fighting that.
When you’re in a ballgame where you’re getting beat, there is some frustration.
When you’re the head coach at Texas and you’re winning a lot of games, you don’t have to have new ideas, you don’t have to change and you really don’t doubt that much.
People love for you to care enough about them to remember their name. It’s something I’ve really worked at. It’s important. And it’s not easy.
We talk about building young men so they can be productive husbands, fathers and citizens.
To be successful, you have to be confident.
I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.
I got labeled as the guy who didn’t coach and sat around and talked. I know what I do, so I don’t worry about it.
It was really hard to get into graduate school at Texas. We had trouble getting grad assistants.
The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.
Losing Mom’s really tough. I’m just lucky I had her for 58 years.
I’m not gonna coach just because I have to coach, but if it’s right and it was fun I’d love to make another run.
When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you’re going to coach.
I love football, always have.
When you’ve got a program like Texas or one like USC, every little thing is scrutinized.
