Mack Brown Quotes

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Mack Brown

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 27, 1951

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.

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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.

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I don't dance.

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I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.

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We want to expect to win every ballgame.

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Our goal is to win the conference championship and go to the playoff and win the national championship and we recruit with that attitude.

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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.

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When you're a young coach you just want to work hard and prove to everybody that you're smart.

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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.

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I learned that a person of color might be afraid to let their children go drive a car, which is awful.

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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.

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I've never been a guy that hated our rivals.

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I've always liked our rivals.

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I would never say anything bad about Texas A&M.

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What we need to do is continue to learn to tackle better, continue to change the rules so we make it safer.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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