Mack Brown Quotes (247 Quotes)

Vince's performance was the best today that I've ever seen him,

Our bunch can score fast. That's what we've got to continue to do. We should have scored a lot more today.

His best asset is to make plays with his feet, ... When he starts running, and everybody comes up, that's when he stops and throws.

When I got here, we won the first two games and there really wasn't much talk about (the series),

The No. 2 Longhorns passed the first test before a record crowd of 105,565 at Ohio Stadium No. 17 Oklahoma, ever the killjoy, awaits Oct. 8. (The win) gives us the opportunity to stay at (No. 2) and hopefully get better as a team, ... Last year, when we lost in October, we lost some of that and couldn't get back up. It by no means gives you a right to the end, and that's what our kids have to understand. It's a long, hard 11 weeks left.

Will Allen can play both guard positions and center. He was a very durable and smart player who earned his degree at Texas and started for three straight years. He is a big, strong guy that can play in the league for 15 years.

I think one of the reasons that Barnett stayed is he wanted to make sure everyone knew that's not who he was or what his program was. They won the North last year and are well on their way to winning the North this year.

It was very emotional for me. Football will miss Bill Snyder. More than that, the kids of Kansas State will miss him. He'll be in the Hall of Fame. Nobody will ever do for a school in football, in my estimation, what he's done for Kansas State.

We couldn't stop them. We couldn't get them off the field. ... But they stopped themselves a couple of times.

Let's shut it up and kick it off and let people enjoy the game. Hopefully, both teams will play well enough that the game lives up to the hype because sometimes they don't.

We've had a tough time in this series. I'm not proud of that and I feel responsible for that. To see the kids out on the field with the fans, the interaction after the game, is something you feel really good about.

He's one of the great players to ever play college football. He was the best player on any team this year. If he comes back, he's got a great chance to win the Heisman next year.

To be honest, we can play a lot better. We had some turnovers and made a bad decision or two. We've got to do a better job. But Texas Tech is a really good football team.

They've got swagger and confidence about them.

I'm excited to accept on behalf of our team and our assistant coaches, ... It's a huge honor, but much more than one person.

He's the best player in the country, at any position.

Let 'em talk, ... That doesn't matter. We'll show up Saturday.

Don't you think you'll be the guy to just walk out there and run down the field and kill everybody. That's not the way it happens. Play within the system. Be smart.

The worst thing for a coach is to try to convince him to come back. After all he's meant to this university, how ungracious of us to be to force him to make a selfish decision.

I think I was the only one in the country who anticipated this. I told the guys....they're going to pull it all out because they've got nothing to lose. I was really, really not proud of myself that I was right.

It will be a fun game for college football. The buildup started in early spring.

Michael's been doing that for three years, getting everyone lined up right and making adjustments on his own, ... That's why we haven't been able to move him to corner.

It was a great football game. It's surreal sitting there in the fourth quarter and you're down by two scores and you still think you're going to win. But we never, ever thought we would lose the ballgame.

I told them they need to enjoy this tonight and not talk about OU, ... We can start talking about OU after we watch tape tomorrow, which is the way it should be.

Who ever knows what a No.1 recruiting class is They should be rated after four years, after we've seen what they've done.

People want to be fair to athletes, and I think instant replay is one of the best things we've ever done. You want to win, but you don't want to win because somebody made a poor call.

It helped us understand that all of the hype around the game is totally unimportant unless you enjoy it. Don't fight it and don't get nervous about it enjoy it. I had a great time the week of the Ohio State game. I had never been to that stadium and I was like a kid walking in there like a fan. It was fun for our group to have all the odds against us because that doesn't happen very much for us. And that's where we are again. We've earned the right to be here but the odds are against us. And that's a good position for us to be in.

We'd like for those two guys to get settled and started and learn the offense before they are criticized.

Now if he makes a mistake, he gets mad, ... He doesn't get down.

Wright will be a first-round NFL pick in '06. Mangold is arguably the best center in the nation. The game could be decided in the trenches, ... It's a matter of who's the toughest the longest.

They did not have Bobby Reid the last two weeks, and we think they'll have him back. He can make a lot of plays. Turnovers have killed them the last three weeks. When you're playing a team like that it scares you. If they fix their turnover problems, it puts you in a tough spot in a tight game on the road.

Nobody in the country is better with the game on the line than Vince Young because he loves the high stakes, he loves the competition, and it's just amazing to me. I was afraid he was going to score too fast 19 seconds was a stretch there at the end. Last year (in the Rose Bowl) we got it to none.

His comment was, 'If there's going to be a poll, you'd like to be as high in it as possible because if there's going to be a beauty contest, you'd like to win,' ... One of the goals we had eight years ago was to make sure Texas is placed back in the elite of college football, and obviously this season we will be.

I want to see us finish. I do think we are one of the best teams in the nation. I don't think there is any doubt about that, but I want to see us continue.

Having two great quarterbacks is not a problem, ... It's a good situation, and I've been there. Everybody talks about, 'Which one is going to play' But the truth is, both of them are really good and can win.

He's done as much for the University of Texas as any single athlete in any sport has ever done. How ungracious for us to try to force him into making a selfish decision.

I knew him when I was a young coach. I admired him for what he stood for. He taught coaches how to win championships with class and dignity.

Texas coach Mack Brown doesn't seem to share Tressel's and Castiglione's enthusiasm for such matchups. In a conference call with reporters earlier this week, Brown intimated the 'Horns, who scheduled the Ohio State series roughly a decade ago when the program was struggling financially and competitively, might not have made the same choice under the present circumstances. At places like ours, we're going to fill up our stadium regardless of who we're playing, ... so we'd actually make more money playing another game at home, getting our guys ready for our conference schedule. So I don't see this continuing beyond next year's game in Austin.

I think when I get through and I'm gumming my food, it will mean a lot ... As far as today, it would give these kids, these coaches and this university something we haven't done since we've been here. Secondly, it gives you a chance to play for a national championship and that doesn't happen many times in peoples' lives, if ever.

This is a great game for college football. It's a game that every college football fan will watch.

He flipped the switch and took over our team, ... Its fun to have a mature guy whos not (just) surviving at quarterback. Hes getting better every play.

We couldn't make a first down running the ball. They were tough and got after our tail. They'll bring an excited bunch in here. I'm sure they'll want to get away from the distractions of the family issues with the flood, and they have nothing to lose.

I think he will be, ... one of the great quarterbacks to ever play college football before he leaves Texas.

When you're 1-10 it's a hurtful period. It's not who makes fun of you because you feel worse about yourself. It's because someone gave you a chance to run their program, and you aren't running it very well. That's what you're proud of for Texas, that they've asked you to do something and you've gotten it to this point.

I thought at the first of the year that USC was definitely No. 1 and nobody deserved to be No. 2. But this team is definitely No 2.

We never, ever thought we'd lose the ballgame. They just kept playing. They never got discouraged and the never gave up.

The trust that I gained is the way he competes when we're in trouble,