Mack Brown

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

“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.”

“I don't have anything to prove.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I've always liked our rivals.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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