Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Randolph

We think we can help him in some cases. He's always had a great arm. Mechanically, there's always something a pitching coach can pick up to tweak a little bit. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

We're not real happy about not defending a league title this year,? said head coach Glenn Nuss.

Chris Quinn

We're not pleased with the final result, but with the inexperience we had we think it was a very successful year. It was the most fun we've ever had coaching a team, and next year we should be much improved.

Willie Anderson

We're pushing this week like it's a regular week. We haven't been told by the coaches that we weren't playing a whole lot. We're told that we're playing the whole game, and we all want to play the whole game.

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.

Those 20 points, we (the offense) really put the defense in that situation. I was really pleased with the defense. Our coaches had a great gameplan, and the guys played hard.

(Thomas) knows it, I told him I'm selfish. I'd like to get to coach him (next year). I always feel like there's one more thing you can learn.

This year we're going to introduce him to more things and, hopefully, he'll be able to pick it up. If he makes a mistake, he's making a mistake going full speed. The coach can live with that.

To say you're pressing, that's true, no doubt. Even the coaching staff. We haven't been hitting, our pitching hasn't been as good as the first half...nice to stop the bleeding.

To say you're pressing, that's true, no doubt, ... Even the coaching staff. We haven't been hitting, our pitching hasn't been as good as the first half...nice to stop the bleeding.

We like his energy, size and I think he'll be a very good defender under Jeff (Van Gundy) and the coaching staff. He can be effective in the paint and he proved on the summer team that he is a much better shooter than people thought he was. We feel fortunate to have him signed.

We've been doing this forever, and our coach really put it on us to kick some butt.

Barry Alvarez

We were scoring so fast a lot of the times, there wasn't a lot of time on the sidelines for the coaches to get enough conversation to know what the problem was, before they were back on the field.

We were scoring but they were scoring easy. Coach (Salter) told us in the locker room that if we don't play defense, we were going to lose.

Nick Saban

We were recruiting a player who had a coach from another school using the NFL as a negative about our program, ... The player said to him -- and I'm not making this up -- 'If the coach of your school is so good, why aren't they trying to hire him in the NFL?'

Nate Robinson

We waited our turn and showed Coach and the world what we can do. We can go out and play hard and have fun.

UA decided to not have (a tournament) this year, so (Gahanna coach Rick Hauser) gave me a call. We're trying to play a competitive schedule, and this (tournament) is a real test.

We don't like to play a deep sweeper like some teams. We like to step up our players to keep it tight in the midfield. It's something I've picked up coaching at higher levels.

We as coaches need to take some responsibility for preparing our girls. It's not a matter of physically being able to perform, but getting it through your head that you can.

Joe Gibbs

We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody -- the coaching staff, the players -- together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we've got something going here.

We're all excited to be back as coaches to work with this group. We know we have some real good Bantams coming up, so the tryouts are going to be super competitive. The whole group comes back and this is going to be that much more of a strong team.

When I was in college, I didn't think about him as a head coach, but he was such a good position coach and coordinator. Looking back, his qualifications as a leader really stood out. He was a guy who could relate to the players, since he was a former player himself. He's a great guy, very knowledgeable.

When I was coaching in the schools years ago, I remember working about an eight-week period for the season. Now for many coaches it is practice every day, with preseason and postseason activities.

When I was coaching college ball, we did a lot of recruiting and saw a lot of high school games, and I'll be honest, it was like a state championship atmosphere; it was that crazy.

We will continue to be aggressive. We have to be. We don't have a lot of size. That's kind of our style and our philosophy with Coach (Ward) Weidenbach. We have gap control and we get after people. We don't have the luxury of being able to slug with people. We need good technique and getting 11 guys to the ball.

We would not be where we are without everyone on this team. All the players, our managers, our four coaches and all the people who have supported us.

Dick Vitale

When a coach gets that opportunity to observe, he's going to look. Because he wants to create a contract that is strong and gives his family the kind of security that guys really seek in anything, whether it be the corporate world, whether it be sports.

We would get in one-on-one situations with her and then pass the pass for some reason. That really frustrated us as a coaching staff.

This will be a hard, hard decision, ... I will discuss the situation with our coach Craig Martin before deciding.

Mike Vrabel

This will be a great test. It?s a division opponent, so there?s a lot of familiarity from the head coach right on down. This is a team that?s physical and has gone on the record as saying they want to play physical, dominate people and run the football, and it shows. They are doing that. It?s impressive, so it?s going to be a huge challenge.