A biography for Mack Brownhasn’t been written yet.
“I've never been a guy that hated our rivals.”
“If you're going to coach, you need to have fun coaching.”
“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.”
“I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.”
“When you're a young coach you just want to work hard and prove to everybody that you're smart.”
“I love football, always have.”
“When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.”
“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.”
“I'm way too competitive and have way too much pride to leave something bad.”
“I like people.”
“When you lose your children, there is nothing worse than that in the world.”
“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'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.”
“The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.”
“This is a game, you're supposed to enjoy it, and I'm afraid a lot of the years I had, I was fighting that.”
“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.”
“I like being nice.”
“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.”
“What I've learned is we need to worry about us.”
“When you lose your children, there is nothing worth that in the world.”