Famous Quotes & Sayings

I feel a good coach can come in and get this thing rolling right away. This year didn't play out the way we wanted it to, but there's a great future and a lot of promise.

I don't want to say it's a sense of relief. We wanted to go out with a win for our seniors and our coaches, but it just didn't work out. It's sad to see all these coaches go. Every guy out here loves these coaches and what they've done for us. But at the same time, the program is going in a new direction.

Steve Hawkins

I don't want to make it sound like coach talk, but we know as quickly as the success comes it can go. It has to be protected. The formula involved is one thing and one thing only -- good players who are good kids. When you combine the two it makes it a lot easier to go into battle.

I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.

I don't want to jump to any conclusions. I'd like to coach him for a while.

I don?t think they so much as hired a football coach as they?re trying to hire an attitude. There?s a very unprofessional element in that dressing room and what he is trying to do is motivate, stimulate and be tough with these guys.

Rich Davis

He's one of the first coaches I've had that has really let us play on offense. If you mess up he lets you know it, but at the same time he gives you a lot of freedom to just play basketball.

He's not doing that. But he has been helping us more and more, and the softball knowledge he gives the girls and coaches is great. If you want to learn the game more, there's nobody better than him.

He's not a coach, he's a friend. He's like a fan, that's how we see him.

Ben Howland

He's not telling you how to do anything. He's just there to be supportive and has been for all the coaches who have followed him.

He sold me more on his individual personality than the just the program. Most coaches just talk about basketball. He wanted to know what was going on in my life and how I was doing.

Nicklas Lidstrom

He's got a great shot, and some nights, he's looking to make that extra pass. I think the coaches have talked to him about taking the shot and being there for rebounds, instead of him passing it up.

He's more of a half-court coach and he runs really good stuff. He's a tremendous defensive coach. I think he'll do a great job. He's a good person, and he's a hard worker.

He's more natural looking than the others with his footwork and they threw him in the fire and he did pretty well. And Coach (Pete) Carroll likes long, tall corners.

He's meant a lot to me. When you come to the bench, it's the way he gives you a high-five and smiles. It's nice to see your coach smiling.

He's incredibly dedicated. He spends hours preparing for an opposing team and prepares me as a player better than any coach I've ever had. He's always been very open about how I need to improve.

He's improved my game quite a bit. Especially doing the little things. I've never been around a coach like Wash, he's unique in the big leagues because he's still teaching. I'm going to take what I've learned from him wherever I go.

I couldn't be happier with the trade for Dawn Staley. She's another coach out there, and she has a lot of gas still left in the tank. I would think she's happy, too. Everybody gets tired of losing.

Allen Iverson

I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach to say that he thinks my conditioning isn't there, that was something new for me. Because nobody never told me that, nobody questioned my conditioning or injuries or anything like that.

I could just coach the matches and not worry about too much of the small, behind-the-scenes stuff. There were only a few small glitches with the computer, so in the grand scheme of things, a lot went right.

I can't compliment (diving coach) Carolyn Peterson enough with what she's done with our divers. She's really been working with our divers and it showed today.

Jeff Smith

I can't coach students on the finer points of law.

Larry Brown

I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.

I can coach football. My coaches can coach football,

I don't like long hair, and with coaching wrestling it was especially tough. Kids were always telling me to get it out of their faces.

Larry Brown

I don't look at it like I'm on them, I'm trying to teach them, ... When they do something right I try to tell them they do something right. When they do something wrong you try to coach them. This is the way I was taught and the way we've always done it.

I don't look any more forward than the time when we were injured. Your job as a coach is to maximize the abilities of what is on hand at any given time.

Jaromir Jagr

I don't like teams where the general manager or coaches are separated, ... Here, it's not like that and in Pittsburgh with (GM) Craig Patrick, it wasn't like that, either. Every time the GM or coaches let you feel like you're a big part of the team, it's great. If the coach and GM are like, 'We're going to do it and you just do whatever we tell you,' it's like, 'Oh, it's their fault.' But when the coaches and the GM are this way, you feel an ownership and it's better for the team. You give more.

Jerome Bettis

I do know that I would have loved to have been in there late in the game, ... Coach and I talked about all the situations that happened in the game and everything that was going on. But it's a conversation I'm going to keep and not talk about.

William Shakespeare

Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.

Carson had a lot of reasons to be emotionally down, but their coaches did a good job because they were ready to play.

People are going to say what they are going to say. Hopefully, we will keep playing hard and he will keep coaching and we'll continue to win. Hopefully, at the end of the season, nothing will be wrong and everybody will come back.

Penn State owned that Maryland-D.C. territory. Seven out of the top 10 players, Larry Johnson's got the state locked up. He's an ex-high school coach down there, so he had great inroads, great contacts.