Malik Jackson Quotes

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

Great coaches can't win always in life.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

You can only win if you have good players.

Bobby Petrino, I think he's an outstanding coach.

I've never been a numbers guy. Numbers don't excite me. Winning games excites me.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

There are things that I will think about, that I have been a part of because I was the head coach at UCLA, that I will always cherish. I grew up loving this program as a kid.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

I loved captaining and trying to win games - but I wasn't enjoying batting any more.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

In football, you can't always succeed.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

I think as the quarterback of any NFL team, you put a tremendous amount of pressure on yourself to win ball games because that's what you're here to do and ultimately, that's what you want to do.

You're not getting any recognition as a point guard if you ain't winning.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.