Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our head coach resigned last week. ... I talked with Damon at length a couple times and he decided he wanted to take it on.

Herb Kohl

Our goal is obviously to get to the playoffs, but I hope we'll be more than that. I hope we get to the playoffs with a good seed, and we can win a round, maybe two rounds. In my mind, we're not a team that will be satisfied to be 41-41 or 40-42. We can do better. I think the guys feel that way, and I know the coaches feel that way.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

We have an extremely good group of guys. They make it real easy to coach.

We need to hear from coaches and other volunteers as soon as possible, so we can start assigning them to teams.

We hadn't been making stops all season. Coach Bowden showed us replays of the third downs. And third down tonight, we stopped them. That made us feel real good to put the offense back out on the field.

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

We've identified a short list. ... We're already involved in the interview stages, and we're well on our way to having our coaching position filled in the next five to 10 days.

When I went up there, I just fell in love with the coaching staff. They've been awesome, really. The system they run is a lot of what they did at West Virginia, which fits the way I play. It fits perfectly.

First and foremost, money. Some of these A-list coaches that are out there right now are going to command huge salaries -- well over $1 million.

Ozzie Newsome

Expectations are there for this team to do well. They are there from the owner, myself, the head coach and his staff, and the players. Now, can we live up to the expectations?

Dominique Moceanu

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

We called a timeout (trailing 71-65 with 1:45 to go) and coach (Charles) Walker had the words that mattered the most. He just said, 'Ball pressure. Put pressure on the ball.' And that's what we did.

Dallas Willard

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

Fans needed to be entertained and our game wasn't that entertaining because coaches were good. Coaches knew how to instill left-wing locks, traps, and combined with holding and hooking and pushing the envelope as far as you could . . . coaches knew what you could get away with.

Fans, clubs, coaches and players - all of us have to be united. This World Cup is something special for all of us.

We've been practicing with a sense of urgency to our preparation. Duquesne's program has been very successful. A new coach won't drive us.

We seem to play better from behind. When that sense of urgency kicks in, the kids seem to realize they?d better start doing what their coaches have been telling them or else.

We're talking about Texas, we're looking forward to Texas. I coach 15 kids right now and we're looking forward to competing in the NCAA Tournament.

We've been knowing we can do it. Our coach has been telling us we can do it. He's been preparing us to get ready for these type of games.

Luke Walton

We've been a very focused team in trying to do what the coaches have set up for us to do.

We've been a streaky shooting team all year. When we're on, we're fun to watch and they're fun to coach because I don't have to do too much.

We had a couple of different game plans. We have game plan A, B, and C, and we went through the gamut of all of them. The fun of coaching this team is the versatility. We did different things today and really tried to keep them guessing, and I thought we kept them off balance.

We had a conversation, and coach B.J. said you have to stay out of foul trouble. That was my main focus.

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

Isaiah Thomas

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

Chris Rogers

With all the rain we've had, we had only one practice since our last tournament back on Aug. 6. I and my coaching staff decided to use the first two pool games to work on some things before the elimination round started.

Coby Karl

We understood that coach was nervous and he had a right to be. We tried to execute in practice and on the floor and get this win.

When coach Cheney resigned, I thought it was going to be one of those rebuilding years. We got mad because we were the underdogs, and nobody expects Kellogg to come out and actually be good. We're tired of just being known as Kellogg.

We said last year we wouldn't play each other right after this tournament. But (BRHS head) Coach (Pam) Robinson and I just decided to do it again.

We've coached some tremendous games. It's a cliche, but you can throw the records out the window when these teams play. Some years we've had the upper hand, but most years he's had the upper hand.