Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rather than trying to hit two or three moving targets, that is trying to get the right coach or the right GM or the right coordinator or whatever it is, they keep that pretty much stable. Now all they have to do is go find another one of these kinds of players, plug them, and in theory, you should be right back and running at full speed.

Really, I could not find any negatives. We play at Lincoln Financial Field, we?re moving into the MAC, we just got a three-year contract with Penn State and the coaching staff is great. Everything about it was amazing.

Professor will be the caretaker coach until we resolve a contractual issue with Trott.

Probably 7 of 10 you give, a coach knew he was going to get a technical by what he said, and the other three, you can tell he didn't mean to say it, but he deserved it. The hardest thing for new official to understand it technical is just a foul. It's two free throws and possession of the ball. It's part of the game. If you read more into it than what it is, that's the problem.

John Calipari

People thought I was crazy. I've had more fun coaching this style.

The team was already together. They had been practicing and everything else, and I think that team was like 16-1 or something. It wasn't my doing. I inherited a good team. But from that point on, I just started coaching and managing and working.

O. Henry

The team really works hard, everyone does. It's a great group of kids, and having a winning record is better than going 0-16 like we did last year, so it really shows how far we've come in one year. It's important to us. Our coaching is awesome, and how we play, it's just real hard work.

Giovanni Trapattoni

The team needs a few matches to learn to play together. It's completely normal that the team and the new coach have to get used to each other.

Shaun Suisham

The team needed a kicker and the offensive line coach gave me about a one-minute lesson.

Jason Richardson

The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together.

Matt Millen

The talent is there. We have not played up to that talent. We need to play at a higher level, and each player and each coach and each person in the front office has to do a better job.

Ozzie Newsome

The third piece was the job that the coaches did last year, taking that young squad and developing some of those young players, and then being able to augment it this year. We looked at it and said, '03 and '04 were what we were shooting for.

The thing you need to take into consideration and that you hear coaches talk about all the time is the fact that you need to perform for the entire match. I thought at times we played well and other moments we had breakdowns that cost us.

The thing that is going to be fun for high school coaches and fans is that we will literally be able to see one of our homegrown quarterbacks on TV every Saturday.

Bret Bielema

The thing that I'm excited about right now is another year to work under coach Alvarez.

The thing I'll remember the most is how tough those practices were when I first got here. With Coach (Bob) Huggins pushing me for three hours. It was different than what I was used to back home. It was the hardest thing, but it was also the most fun thing.

Flip Saunders

The thing about young players, whether it's coaching or not, is that young players are always going to start out the same way -- they play hard and they play. That's who they are. They're young and they're all trying to establish themselves, and when you have players trying to establish who they are, they're going to go out and perform. Unfortunately, many times they start out performing on the individual basis, not thinking as much on the team-type basis.

The thing about it was, I was just playing and did what coach Martin coaches. He really stresses throwing the unders, throw the wide routes. And that's really what I did was just throw completions.

The thing I told Rod is that I would have hated to have to try and coach him. He just didn't listen, but that's how talented he was. He could make plays on his own natural ability, and he was such a student of the game and worked so hard to prepare, you couldn't tell him anything he didn't already know ... or think he knew. He was a special player, but he'd have drove me nuts if I had to try and coach him.

I've loved every minute of it. Coach (Lon) Kruger made me a better player and I'm glad I made this choice.

Larry Brown

I've never coached that way, where we've never had a set rotation, except my first year in San Antonio, we had a lot of injuries. That's really hurt the team. It hurts your progress. All of a sudden, we settled on David at the three and we have the three-guard rotation for the most part. It helps everybody, I think.

I've never coached a player in 34 years who prepares like he prepares. To the detail, to the consistency, to how much he stresses the importance of getting himself into his game mode.

I've never been prouder in the two years I've been coaching these guys.

Bill Callahan

It's fairly safe to say that an African-American coach with a record like that wouldn't immediately be handed the keys to one of the most prestigious programs in America.

Troy Polamalu

It's a shame that Coach LeBeau is not in the (Pro Football) Hall of Fame, the way he revolutionized football with the zone blitz.

Jerome Bettis

It's a shame, but I think now people are starting to realize how good a coach he's been for how long. And I think before the game he's being acknowledged for that, so I really think that's a good thing. But ultimately you're only remembered for winning the big game.

Pete Carroll

It's a smaller kind of setting, but he's got great instincts for the job. Nick has taken that program over. He's a very hard-nosed, demanding coach who's going to get it done.

Eddie Jordan

It's a situation where we're going to have to monitor Jarvis as the season goes along, ... That's just a part of coaching in the NBA. Injuries are going to happen throughout the season and you have to adjust.

It's a tough loss. It's going to hurt for awhile. But the kids have to be resilient, the coaches have to be resilient. It's still early enough in the season where we can still perhaps make a run in the league. But we have to improve. We have to find ways to win games like this.

Brad Johnson

It's a tough deal. I was hoping coach Tice would remain the coach, but I guess ownership decided to go in a different direction.

Ray Brown

It's a sad and melancholy day, but at the same time, it's a wonderful reunion. It was great to see everyone. It's hard to articulate, but when a man like coach Vaught takes all these guys under his wing, and helps make them better people, he's really accomplished something.

It's a team effort. There's nothing I can get mad at. It was coach Bower's decision.

Arnaz Battle

It's great, ... I feel like coaches are realizing the strengths that we have on this team, the type of players and what we can do ? the variety of things.