Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Mack Brown
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Mack Brown.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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 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.
If you're going to coach, you need to have fun coaching.
Don't get me wrong, I always wanted to win, but, after we'd won and won and won, it became more about not wanting to lose than enjoying wins.
I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.
Communication helps you build up trust and respect... It gets everyone on the same page.
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 don't dance.
I love football, always have.
I realized I need to do a better job of opening up other interests because my interests are sports, my family, my faith and my friends. That's it. That's all I got.
Losing Mom's really tough. I'm just lucky I had her for 58 years.
Sixteen, 17 games in a season is a lot of wear and tear on the body, especially for guys who don't come out when they're playing.
If you're not careful, you start trying to be somebody you're not to please everybody.
The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.
Seeing a player return to campus 20 years later with his family and he tells you, 'I'd never be where I am today without this university and this team.' That's everything. That's why you coach.
The media is very important, very powerful in athletics today, and we as coaches must try to learn more about what is a delicate job.
If you're girlfriend or your wife ever asks you to go on 'Jerry Springer,' don't go. It's not good.
I don't want to be the athletic director at Texas, that's not my expertise. I don't want to take wins as a football coach and have someone shove me into that position because they'd think I'd like it, that I deserve it or a 'pat on the back.'
No one wants to see a player lose his credibility in college, lose his chance to play and obviously maybe not have the right guy to prepare for his future.
We want to expect to win every ballgame.
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.
Sick kids getting a little joy out of a football game, it doesn't get better than that.
I realized in the five years off, what I missed was being around the young people, the organization, the practice, the fourth quarter of the game where you're behind, trying to get back to win the game late. It's not about the rings and trophies and money, that's not what you got into it for.
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.
Most coaches that I saw in my time off weren't very happy in coaching, and I committed to my wife, Sally, if I was going back, I was going to be happy.
I would always want to be involved with football in some manner. I love the game. I love coaching, good and bad.
When you lose your children, there is nothing worth that in the world.
When you're a young coach you just want to work hard and prove to everybody that you're smart.
I'm going to coach here as long as I can. As long as I'm effective for North Carolina, I will be the football coach.
I think that the NFL Players Association has to put more restrictions on the agents like the NCAA has put restrictions on us.
I want to help young coaches have an experience like I've had. But mostly, I want to take the prized possession of every parent by taking their children and helping them grow and helping mentor them and helping them teach me.
I've never been a guy that hated our rivals.
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.
When you lose your children, there is nothing worse than that in the world.
I've always liked our rivals.
I've been so impressed with Commissioner Goodell.
We need to all reach out to our parents and say that we love 'em and care for 'em and make sure that they know that. Because we got a hard world out there.
When you're the head coach and you do what you do and you're winning enough and you never have anybody leave, you never go visit anywhere else. If you're not careful, you don't get new ideas.
When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.
I want to run the ball, be physical and be able to throw it deep.
It was really hard to get into graduate school at Texas. We had trouble getting grad assistants.
Georgia is one of the best states there is.
To be successful, you have to be confident.
Without communication we have nothing.
By listening to others, you better understand their needs and you can then better communicate with them.
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.
What we need to do is continue to learn to tackle better, continue to change the rules so we make it safer.
What I've learned is we need to worry about us.
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.'
Our goal is to win the conference championship and go to the playoff and win the national championship and we recruit with that attitude.
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.
No, I don't do hypotheticals, I'm in the now.
I'd lost the joy of coaching. There were times after a win when I was shouting at my assistants leaving the field because I wasn't happy with the way we'd played. I had lost what I started out to be in coaching: Someone who had a positive effect on the lives of my players.
I would never say anything bad about Texas A&M.
Any recognition I've received, or been considered for, honors all of the coaches, players and staff that have been a part of our program for many years. They are the reason my name is on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot, so most importantly I thank them.
The top-tier teams, it's about winning. It's about filling the stands and making enough money to pay for the other sports.
I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.
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.
I learned that a person of color might be afraid to let their children go drive a car, which is awful.
It got to the point the last time, at Texas, where every loss was a tragedy and every win was exhaling.
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