Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Riley

The demise of Shaquille O'Neal has been greatly exaggerated. I can guarantee you that - and I coach him.

Three home runs. I've never seen that as a coach or player in my career.

Carmelo Anthony

Triple-team. If I was a coach, I'd do the same thing.

Yeah, we've been here and played in the past, but that doesn't do us any good right now. We're going to have to come out and play well (tonight) because, like coach said, they've got good numbers, and they've played some teams very hard. We're going to have our hands full.

Keyshawn Johnson

You know those guys can play. You don't have to worry about that. Because you know our head coach knows something about football. Our head coach knows something about players. And he's going to get the right guys who know how to win.

You know, they're such a team. They've gotten hurt a little more this year with injuries and with coaching changes, but we've still got to go out and make plays.

You know how some coaches are on such a tight schedule? With Coach Gibbs, his 10 a.m. meeting might start at 10:05, 10:15, whenever he wanted to start it.

Rick Dempsey

When I returned to the Orioles as a coach I turned to Elrod for help and guidance. No one knew more about the organization.

John Elway

When I retired, I really wanted to spend time with my family and kids. Coaching would have prevented that due to the commitment of the job and travel that goes with it, too.

Antonio Pierce

When I first signed here, I was told by Coach Coughlin, the defensive coordinator, everybody, 'We have to knock off Philly,'

When I first moved here to coach we were strong in singles skating, but didn't have much in pairs and dance. This year we're going to the nationals with the full package.

When I first did it, coach Paterno talked to me about it and made sure that mentally I was OK.

Ryan Watson

We needed to come back refocused and get back to winning football. Like all coaches say, 'You play like you practice.' We had a great week of practice and we played well tonight.

We know there are four quarters to a game, so we weren't really worried at all. Coach told us we weren't playing bad, they were just knocking down the three-ball tonight. So we had to keep our hand out on them and that was all we could do.

Mike Holder

While we look forward to Coach Sutton rejoining the team as soon as possible, we want him to take whatever time he needs to fully heal.

While we have the utmost respect for coach Willingham, his staff, his players and the university, ... after last week we know we need to make a lot of adjustments and a lot of corrections within ourselves, and we're really concentrating on fixing ourselves before we head out to Seattle.

While we hate to lose a coach with his abilities, we support this opportunity for him.

Dave Tippett

We've been good friends for a long time. I respect what he's done as a coach and his work ethic. We have a lot of the same views about the game. We spend a lot of time chatting. Over the years we got to be good friends and our wives are good friends.

We've been going at that tempo since we started winter workouts; we're kind of used to it even though we're on the field for 2 hours and 30 minutes (Monday). Everybody is doing something; nobody sits around. Coach is just trying to find out what everyone's talents are. Guys he sees that are good at something, they'll play.

We've been fortunate with 60 guys out for wrestling to get 13-14 quality guys all on the mat (at different weight classes). This is the first time in my 16 years coaching that I've had 14 guys with winning records.

Dan Campbell

We've been focusing on the offensive side. Coach (Chris) Wyrick has been doing a good job with those hitters, and it paid off for us (Tuesday).

Brian Dawkins

We got the personnel, we got the coaching and we got everything we need to turn that thing around,

We had to play all 16 minutes of the second half because Coach Hardy and his guys are really good. It was a battle.

Hamish Bowles

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

Herman Edwards

We followed what the doctors told us to do and that is what coaches do,

We didn't execute the way we're going to have to the rest of the season. I've coached enough football to see that and now the guys have seen that.

We didn't even think at all about that. Our coaches worry about that. We just went out there and played.

We had five coaches say they don't want their votes published -- these were deal-breakers for them, ... They said, 'I'd feel more comfortable voting honestly than having to go home and defend myself.'

We have a great offensive line coach ( Pete Pierson ) and the line is playing spectacular.

We have a good core from last year and we'll see how the new guys push the returning players, ... I'm very excited about our coaching staff. Our team will play with a lot of passion. I expect us to be very competitive.

Frank Beamer

We have a football team that is extremely well coached and plays hard. They really took it to Pittsburgh. It wasn't a fluke.

We wanted to make a run to put the dagger in. Coach told us to put the dagger in play by play.

We wanted to have coach Alvarez end on a good note. Nobody gave us a chance. We deserved to be here and we won.