Mack Brown

Georgia is one of the best states there is.

When you have 82 plays, you should have more than 21 points.

When you lose at Texas, you're going to be bashed. I accept it.

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.'

To sit around and blame myself for everything that goes bad or credit myself for everything that's good, that's stupid.

I have never given myself credit for anything.

Coaches block out the future because they think if they start talking about the future they're not being fair to their current staff or players. That's a real phobia. In some cases it really hurts your family. During the season your commitment is to your coaches and your team.

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 would always want to be involved with football in some manner. I love the game. I love coaching, good and bad.

I'm not going to offer and take a guy at North Carolina that I don't meet. And if I don't like him, I'm not taking him.

We are lucky in Chapel Hill to have the most brilliant medical people anywhere in the country.

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.

Sick kids getting a little joy out of a football game, it doesn't get better than that.

You've got to protect your quarterback.

I think that the NFL Players Association has to put more restrictions on the agents like the NCAA has put restrictions on us.

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.

I've been so impressed with Commissioner Goodell.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

It got to the point the last time, at Texas, where every loss was a tragedy and every win was exhaling.

I love football, always have.

I'd like to be a great example for other coaches. That's all I want to be.

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

Either you came to eat hamburgers and steaks before the game or you came to play. We don't need any hamburger-eaters, we need players. The guys that really have energy and get excited about the game usually can't eat pregame meal.

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

You need to compete.

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

I'm way too competitive and have way too much pride to leave something bad.

I love Phil Mickelson. He's a dear friend.

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

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.

You went into the business to change kids lives and all the sudden you forget.

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.

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.

Good kids want to stay where their parents can see them play.

If you can imagine digging into something and trying to fit all the pieces together, that's recruiting for us.

I love going into a home and talking to a family that knows nothing about recruiting - about the whole process. I love selling who we are and what we are, and that's something I really missed when I was on TV.

I love being around the recruits. I like seeing them in the office. I like having the 1-on-1 conversations with them.

When you've got a program like Texas or one like USC, every little thing is scrutinized.

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.

I sincerely want what's best for the University of Texas.

You should never, ever walk by anyone no matter how young or old they are, without stopping and smiling and shaking their hand and taking a picture or signing an autograph.

I like making people smile. It's fun for me.

I like being nice.

If a player needs money, and that's a decision he's willing to make to go to college based on name, image and likeness, where he can make more money instead of where he wants to go to school, why don't we give him the choice to go to the NFL if he's ready to go and if the NFL wants him to go? Basketball has done it for years.

To be successful, you have to be confident.