TCU's Sonny Dykes Discusses the Impact of His Mother

I'm really interested in the the role that your mother played in your upbringing and I I haven't read a lot about that I haven't heard a lot about that but um can you speak to I don't want to put words in your mouth but like you know my dad wasn't a football coach but saw him leave before the sun came up and come home after the sun went down and similarly was very close with my mother but to this day have the utmost respect for my father and I feel like I absorbed a lot of his work ethic you know caught it more than it was taught right and so I wonder for you the the kind of meshing of the two the watching your father with his work ethic right and then your mom with the you know the presence that you just spoke to yeah yeah you know my dad was my dad was kind of just you know one purpose you know and that was to to coach football to to impact young people to win games single you know minded focus on that know again my my mom loved music and so we had music going all the time in our house and you know my Dad it's funny my dad would always tell me he goes I don't understand music I don't really get it I don't understand it I don't appreciate it I don't like it it's funny he just this wasn't his thing and if it didn't have anything to do with football he just wasn't too too much of a fan of it and and my mom was kind of the opposite of me just really loved the Arts and and so I think I got that part of her for sure uh I spent a lot of time with my mom I mean it's just kind of the way it was and you know she had a huge impact on me just from the time spent and it's like you said my dad was a great example the one thing I did get to see from my dad was just the impact that he had on players you know I mean for years and years and years we uh you know we would have former players that came and stayed at our house you know former players families you know my dad was constantly doing anything he could to help you I really truly you know believe that those guys were were our family you know

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