Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

Very often I get e-mails intended for Jon Stewart from Comedy Central that are mailed to me. And the first reaction, and the first response that I or my assistant make is: Do you have the right Jon Stewart?

At my time at Hylton when I was assistant principal, I could see his intensity and the kids were well coached and well behaved and that caught my eyes then.

There's a good assistant out there that played for me, Danny Sprinkle. At some point I think getting him back would be good.

There's no doubt in my mind I understand basketball as well as anybody. My assistants and I have a good relationship and we talk every night, but from day one I've had the final say.

Norv Turner

There's no dynamic involved - I work for Mike. I've been an assistant coach for over half the time that I've been in this league. I know my role.

John Wooden

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

Patricia Velasquez

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

Jim Calhoun

He's one of the best assistants and one of the best evaluators of talent that I've ever been around, ... I think in the next week or two we are going to try to name him associate head coach because he's been that good.

I'm sure not a lot of people will be able to tell that story. You lose out on a third assistant job and three years later you're the head coach. That's kind of unique.

John Jay

In all my years as a coach and an assistant coach in this league, I don't know that there's ever been more key players missing games than this year.

Brad Goreski

I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.

I knew I always wanted the chance to play for Danny. When I was with the Edmonton Eskimos and he was an assistant coach with Calgary, I wasn't dressing my first year and he was in the spotter's booth and he'd always tell me: 'It's a good league. Be patient.' Just those little words of encouragement meant a lot. When he became a head coach, I had the urge to play for him just once in my career.

I knew one of his assistants had left to go to Penn State Beaver and I thought he might need some help. I probably would have ended up as a volunteer coach some place, but Scott told me to come over and that's how it started.

I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.

I owe him all the credit for what we've done here. He's an exceptional coach and he's got a great opportunity. I want everyone to know that I think he was the best junior college assistant coach in the country and I appreciated all of his hard work.

If you can't get excited about this, you might as well leave the profession. This is the only way any of us know how to do it. All of us are in the same boat. I work the same hours as an assistant coach, as a coordinator. I'm sure John (Fox) worked the same hours as a coordinator as he does as a head coach. We kind of all leave out of here together a lot.

I liked what I saw and was lucky enough to get a job as an assistant doctor at the Essen University Medical College.

I'm outraged not only by his own deception, but his efforts to enlist players and assistant coaches in this scheme,

Billy Donovan

I'm just happy for everybody -- the administration, the players, the assistant coaches and the fans. I'm very blessed and very thankful for the opportunity to coach these kids.

I'm just proud we got back to where we were. The last time we made it to the state tournament I was the assistant coach. This is my first one and it's the first one for these kids.

Mark Shapiro

I had nothing to do with that. I was in the room, but I was the assistant general manager. I didn't make any of the calls.

Cody Horn

I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.

Dick Vermeil

It's about time that assistant coaches got paid like that. Those owners that are complaining could pay their assistants like that, but they don't. The National Football League is supposed to be the best of the best. If you can't compete with the best of the best, maybe you shouldn't be in it.

It is really just a dream come true. Coming here, '7' and '21' (head coach Tim Hill and assistant Tim Hill II) stressed not just being a regular player, but being the kind of player who comes in and breaks records and leaves his mark.

It's a great credit to our program. I think that's a little bit the lay of the land in Division I athletics. Assistant coaches are very mobile and the guys have had great opportunities.

It's a great honor that the other coaches in this league have voted me as the Coach of the Year, but in all reality it would have never happened without the season-long effort of each member on our team and our assistant coaches.

I like this gym. I've been doing pretty well. Coach (Jared) Casper, our assistant coach, tells me to trust my muscle memory. I've shot a million threes in my life. It's different here (E Center) because the background is so far away, but I just shot it the way I always do.

I really took it because he was here. I didn't know what I was walking into. I wouldn't be able to do it without him. By him being a recruiter and assistant in Lufkin and doing it for so many years, he was able to get it together for me. All I had to do was walk on the floor.

Daryl Hall

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Jason Varitek

I'm very upset we're losing a guy like him. We also lost our assistant GM (Josh Byrnes), who's a very good baseball man. We seem to have a lot of that going around.

Matt Dillon

I'm the happiest for the kids and the assistant coaches because they've been working their tails off and it paid off. It feels great.

Ed Orgeron

I just know that we did the right thing, ... We called an assistant coach and said that we heard that football may not be going on at Tulane, and we would like to go through the proper channels when the time comes.

His attitude has been terrific. (Glynn, an assistant captain, and Nanavati) have handled it perfectly. They both played last year and pretty much split their duties. Their attitudes have been terrific. They understand that. Without that positive attitude, I don?t think we are going to have the same success.