Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Vick

We are going to get it on, ... Two great coaching staffs, two great quarterbacks, two great teams. That's the way it should be.

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

We had six possessions in the second half, but we couldn't get any points. Last year, we had so many seniors who had played as juniors. This time we only have six kids who played last year. As coaches we have to keep that in mind and be happy with seeing improvement each game.

We had parameters set for him. One was to be a good student and there were other guidelines. If I looked the other way, it wouldn't be right for the team. It's the first time in my 28 years as a coach that I did something like this. It was a difficult decision.

We had our share of success at St. John's, but you have got to have players, too. And I've had the good fortune to have had other good coaches to learn from.

Marcus Vick

We went into halftime and the coaches made a lot of great adjustments. They called the right plays and we just went out in the second half and tried to make it happen.

We wanted a successful head coach regardless of where he'd been. Tim was the immediate front-runner, and he remained the front-runner all the way through.

We want a coach that we think will improve our product and put a more competitive team on the field right now. We have identified a list of candidates. It's quite a wide list. We will do this immediately, but diligently. I know there will be a number of coaching vacancies, but we will do it in a way that suits us.

Chad Henne

What my high school coach and I were saying is we can go back home with our heads up high now,

We focused on ourselves and the players at Washington. We respect Coach Willingham, but at the end of the day, it's just football. Really, we're just happy for the 'W'.

We focused on him in the scouting report and in practice. We just didn't come out and do a good job like we should have by listening to the coaches about making him dribble and take it to the basket.

We focused on getting off to a fast start because coach thought we'd be cold because we'd all been home sleeping all day. It's just hard to get going on game days when there's no school so we wanted to make sure we were ready.

We finished at the right time. Ivan punched it in and it was great. I'm so excited. It's fun coaching these guys.

We got a little lucky, and that's the only reason we're playing Friday. Yorkville played great. I told the guys that I've been coaching for 20 years and there's only one game I remember that was a blowout.

Jake Delhomme

We go on the road, it's just us. You have to believe. It's going to be loud, but we concentrate on our job. Coach (John) Fox does a good job with that.

John Chaney

We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime.

We gained some momentum and Coach Templeton called a nice strategic timeout to take away our momentum. And it was successful. We weren't tough enough stick through that. But in the second half I think we did play a much more intense game.

We just do what we're told, because Coach Kane is a great coach. Our strengths are we want to be good, and we are willing to play hard. We can hang with some of those in teams in the Top 10.

We knew eventually they were going to make a run. Coach just stressed to go out there and keep being aggressive. A lot of their points were coming off our mistakes.

We knew Coach Snyder wasn't that type of guy. It would have been easier for him to quit earlier in the season, but we've been through so much we knew he didn't quit.

We knew after winning the MAC tournament and the regular season last year that we would have a huge bullseye on our back. Coach (Curt) Miller talked about that all year, that we had to be ready every night because so many teams would be after us even more.

We kind of started to panic there and the coaches told us to slow down and just shoot the ball.

We kind of made it a point -- the coaches did in the meetings. We've got to get ugly goals and start driving the net. I thought we did a lot better job of driving to the net. Everybody did it tonight.

You hope they'd have to coach that, ... just like a team that gives you a funky look on defense. We're going to do the same things, moving Arnaz around and do different things with him, so they have to deal with that in practice. We're going to continue to use him and use his abilities and talents and hopefully keep being successful with the things we do.

You hear coaches talk about players being in the doghouse. It's not one of those things. It's a kid who made a mistake. She served her time and she's learned from it.

You hear coaches say it all the time, you can't replace a person of that level... but you hope you can get somebody who can come in and fill that void.

You have to make strong moves around her, and I was able to do that. The game plan was great. Coach put us in a position to win this game.

You have coaches trusting players and players trusting coaches, ... Donovan's one of the toughest competitors I've ever been around, maybe the toughest.

Lou Holtz

With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.

With P-Willie being out, Coach O wanted me to try the position to see how it worked out, ... It (was) a lot of thinking and a lot of the mental part of the game.

You have to take what Coach Spurrier tells you to do and just go out there and do it. It's a lot of fun playing for him.

You had a lot of dinosaurs as far as coaches in the conference. New coaches have really invigorated the conference.

Daniel Briere

You have to give him credit. He's been known as a defensive coach pretty much his whole career.