Mack Brown Quotes

"What they are doing in college football is unheard of, offensively, ... It's amazing."

"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."

"Coach (Darrell) Royal said guys like him are quick as a puff of smoke."

"Usually the coach of the year is the guy that overcame something. We didn't overcome anything. We just won a big game at the end and we hadn't been doing that. For Joe to do what he's done over the last few years and turn his program completely around is really, really special. I don't think there's any question he's deserving of this award."

"I like Pete, so that makes this week easier. If you don't like the other coach, it's a longer week."

"He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team. This is now Vince Young's team."

"One of the reasons we've improved so much is Vince has improved his confidence and his poise and the fact that he's leading and running our football team."

"I think it sent the message, ... that this team was going to play with confidence and be aggressive the rest of the day."

"At times we didn't even play that good. But we played hard, and we played with confidence."

"We weren't real proud of our run defense. We'll try to stop the run first (against Baylor). If you can't stop the run, you've got problems."

"Right there I told the defense, 'You stop this play and we're going to win the national championship."

"This bunch, all year, has controlled their own destiny, and they did the same today."

"He's not an athlete playing quarterback. He's a quarterback who happens to be a great athlete. He reads defenses as well as any quarterback in the country. You never hear about that part of his game."

"This is a class that grew up together. They're meeting expectations, and expectations were high."

"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."

"He said, 'Your biggest problem is making football important again at Texas.' It had not been good for a while."

"I'm proud of these kids. I'm proud of these coaches. High school football in Texas is unbelievable."

"Next year's team hasn't won a game. There's not going to be another Vince Young. We can win football games at Texas because we won them before Vince got here, and we'll win them afterwards."

"When you're a football player at the University of Texas and you're playing in the national championship game the players understand the scrutiny is going to be a little more than usual. I think we'll handle it."

"It's been a fun year so far. We just want to keep it going. One thing I've learned at Texas, we've been playing football for 112 years and there were expectations 112 years ago. It hasn't changed."