Mack Brown Quotes

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Mack Brown

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 27, 1951

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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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.

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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.

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No, I don't do hypotheticals, I'm in the now.

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We've often gotten the rep for being a player's coach. 'Talk sweet to 'em all the time.' In reality, we're very disciplined, very demanding. You can only be that way if you're fair and you're consistent.

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The top-tier teams, it's about winning. It's about filling the stands and making enough money to pay for the other sports.

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I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.

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When you lose your children, there is nothing worse than that in the world.

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We talk about building young men so they can be productive husbands, fathers and citizens.

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What I've learned is we need to worry about us.

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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.

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All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren't as important as winning.

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Communication helps you build up trust and respect... It gets everyone on the same page.

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In your life, if you start quitting, then you're a quitter.

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When you're in a ballgame where you're getting beat, there is some frustration.

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Without communication we have nothing.

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By listening to others, you better understand their needs and you can then better communicate with them.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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