Famous Quotes & Sayings

He told me that I don't respect him and he's going to let me go so I can play for a team and a coach that I do respect. That's straight up what he said.

Pat Riley

He told me how exciting it was to coach and that I would probably love it. That was very encouraging.

He's wrestled in those situations so many times in tournaments, and that's something not a lot of parents or coaches understood when they watched him. He's experienced those big-type atmospheres.

He's very smart. What makes a good coach is experience, and what better experience can you have than to be a two-time state champ. The lessons he's learned filter down well to our kids. They have a role model to look up to.

He threw a snap just a tad high, hit (holder Chris) Gardocki in the face mask and coach (Bill Cowher) got on (Warren's) butt,

He's the only four-year starter I've ever had in 29 years as a coach.

Josh Freeman

He's the kind of guy you'd want to play for. Not that the Nebraska coaches weren't. But you only get to pick your college once. Sometimes an opportunity is too good to pass up, and you have to give it a chance.

He's loyal, he has a high (grade point average) and he has the desire to do the extra things in the off-season. He has a blue-collar work ethic and he's a very dependable leader. The coaching staff is very proud of what he's done.

He's like another coach on the floor. He'll come up and say, 'Coach, we need so-and-so to come off a screen like this ...' He's that type of kid.

John Williamson

He's laid it all down up front. He doesn't sugar-coat anything. I have a lot of confidence in Mick and the coaching staff.

He's a really enthusiastic coach, as passionate about coaching as I am about skating. And Michelle is a fierce trainer. It's a great skating atmosphere.

Chris Petersen

He's an excellent football coach. It's a great hire for those guys. The way I look at it, he'll make us better. That program will be better for him, and competition's a good thing. That makes people better.

He's a guy who understands the coach and his different moods, the day-to-day stuff. For everybody else, he has sort of been the voice in the locker room. . . . To me, it would make sense if he was one of the captains.

He said (the coaches understood) he needs to make an informed decision. So they didn't pressure him about making a commitment over the weekend. So he's probably going to look at visiting a couple other places. This is a big decision for him.

Gary loves Indianapolis and playing for coach (Tony) Dungy and coach (Ron) Meeks.

Jerry West

I’ve never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich

By the third overtime, there's only so much coaching you can do. I just told them to play hard. The kids know what to do. They were having fun with it, they were smiling, they knew they were part of history.

But when we didn't get any offers, we contacted Coach Ro in late spring. He didn't promise anything, but he said he was pretty sure he could find a school for Brian.

Bryan Colangelo

He's the coach. He's under contract and he'll be the coach of this team next year.

He's our leader. He's our captain. We have his back, just like we have Coach Tice and our coaching staff's back.

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

I didn't underestimate them. I don't know about the team. I knew they could play. I saw it on tape. Coach told us.

Mike was a great guy and I know he'll be coaching somewhere else. Wherever he goes, I won't mind playing for Mike Sherman. He's just that great of a guy.

(McCreary coach Marc Taylor) told me they were error-prone just like we are.

Taurean Green

Just having somebody that played the game and coached the game, it helps to hear his opinion.

Dennis Erickson

Just being around the players and coaches; the camaraderie of the game; to see them learn and get better, improve all the time; and being around the coaches and coaching football, which is what I do best. Probably the most fun is to see them get better as a football team and as individuals.

Tom Renney

I think everyone feels honored to be part of it. Jaromir comes to work every day and displays what you could only hope for in a player like that, with his work habits and the way he treats his teammates and the respect he shows the organization and the coaching staff.

Some of that was by circumstance. We wanted to move a guy and they wanted two guys in a trade. That position, looking at it, wasn't as productive as it needed to be. I felt we had other people who fit better, so some of them had to leave. As football coaches, you like to think you can coach everybody and anybody, but sometimes you have to recognize that you can't.

Bobby Frasor

Some guys were frustrated, and some guys were down. But definitely the locker room at halftime was more lively. Usually we just sit in there and wait for Coach Williams, but everybody was talking and being positive with each other.

My wife made the statement that she felt like the kids were pressing, because I was pressing. She said, You've got to relax and have fun.' Once they saw that coach was relaxed and wasn't yelling and screaming, they relaxed and played well as a result.

Tom Izzo

That was a difficult game to coach and difficult game to play in.

That's what Coach was emphasizing in the huddle. That this is the type of team that can come back.

That's the one thing I wanted that I left out of my coaching career. I never won a state title. I was fortunate to be down there several times, but we never won it. We probably should have a couple times, but we missed out.