Mack Brown Quotes

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Mack Brown

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 27, 1951

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.

Mack Brown

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.

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Losing Mom's really tough. I'm just lucky I had her for 58 years.

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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.

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I want to run the ball, be physical and be able to throw it deep.

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If you're not careful, you start trying to be somebody you're not to please everybody.

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If you're girlfriend or your wife ever asks you to go on 'Jerry Springer,' don't go. It's not good.

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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.

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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.'

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I love football, always have.

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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.

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When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.

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It was really hard to get into graduate school at Texas. We had trouble getting grad assistants.

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To be successful, you have to be confident.

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I've been so impressed with Commissioner Goodell.

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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.

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