Quotes from Mack Brown

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You've got to protect your quarterback.

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

Georgia is one of the best states there is.

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

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.

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 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.'

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.

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

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.

I don't need any more recognition. I don't need any more money. I don't need any legacy.

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

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

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.