Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Larry Coker

We could have won all those eight games. If we look at it overall, we're 53-8 in five years. That's an enviable place to be. ... Without a question, where we are and what we've done is something to be proud of. But as coaches you always look at those eight. Those are the ones that stand out, and it's always going to be that way. The fans look at the eight, but coaches are worse than fans because we can't go home at night and forget about them.

We could have quit, but coach told us at halftime the game wasn't over. They've got a lot of talent coming back. I think we got things turned around and are heading in the right direction.

Ray Lewis

We can't have a play like they had on the touchdown when we play the Colts. Rex and the coaches will fix that.

Marvin Lewis

We have to win football games. I don't think Carson has to do anything different. The rest of us have to keep playing and coaching better. He's so, so talented. As I keep saying from the day he walked in here, the guy, no matter what he touches, he can turn it to gold.

We just didn't match their intensity, four quarters, you know. Sometimes we played decent, scoring, making plays, but then we wouldn't execute like we should. There was a lot of frustration, you could feel it. The offense, the coaching staff. We just weren't executing.

We played pretty good. I have great parent and coaching staff support. Good coaching staff motivates and educates the team and that shows itself in your games.

Pat Gillick

At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.

Ron Zook

We had opportunities to stand up and make plays and we just didn't do it. I'm tired of it. I know the coaches are tired of it, and I know a lot of guys in that locker room are tired of it.

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.

We have three great coaches on defense that could all be coordinators.

Gilbert Arenas

We have this job, most players, four years. If you're lucky, you can squeeze out a 10-year career. After that, you have the rest of your life to do whatever you want. I'd rather devote my time when I have it, and after I'm done with this, there are other things in life and I can forget about basketball. Once I'm done, I don't want to sit around here and linger around and coach or try to get into the media stuff. When I'm done with the NBA, I just want to be done with it.

We were speaking to Felipe as part of the process of recruiting the next coach and that process continues.

Antawn Jamison

We were so disappointed in ourselves. To come out in the first game like that. National TV. The spotlight. And we pretty much laid an egg. We embarrassed the coaching staff, we embarrassed ourselves. We showed that in practice (Sunday). It wasn't one of those practices where we just showed up, took a few shots and went home. Coach was on us and we went at it. That's what you saw in this game.

Tyler Howells made a play that was just great. But as a coach, I was still worried with 10 seconds left.

We work on special teams a lot. I get a little grief from some coaches thinking we work on it a little too much, but on nights like tonight, it paid off. That's a big part that we maybe overlooked in the early years of this program.

We work hard in practice and just do what coach tell us, ... You play how you practice.

We worked hard and prepared for tonight's game. It was time for us to get over the hump, and I think we did that tonight. The coach always says play hard, have fun, and that's what I did.

We want to make a decision so that the kids can get going with the new coaches and not skip a beat.

We didn't tackle and we didn't block. My hat's off to Plymouth. Coach Barron had a fine game plan. They spread us out and ran the ball. We had our opportunities.

Tim White

We are moving thoughtfully and quickly to hiring a new coach. We're not looking for a placeholder coach. We're looking for an individual who has had competitive success at the college level.

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

We've got some kids who can hit and they're starting to come around a little bit. I've had coaches tell me we're a good-hitting team, but we're not where I want to be yet.

Bill Cowher

We've got some guys who have not been there before, but we have a lot of coaches who have been there before.

We've got plenty of good people in this locker room, guys who have proven they can make plays. We're not playing a four-game season. Everybody's got to relax. That's what Coach Tice has done a good job of doing, telling us to relax.

We've got other guys who do a great job, but Robert's exceptional. He does the things you can't coach. You can't coach speed. Some of his cuts, some of his acceleration, some of his cutbacks, there's no coaching in that. It's just a gift.

We've lost one of the giants in this business. I have always felt like Sue was one of the top three or four coaches in the women's game.

We have coaches who will yell at us and another coach who will calmly tell us what to do. Different guys respond to different things.... It's a good mix.

Matt Mays

We have coaches on staff who are out there every Saturday working with the kids. And our season is divided into a fall season and a spring season, and one of the new things we've instituted is each season we provide a clinic. It provides a lot of one-on-one coaching time.

Mack Brown

Usually the coach of the year is the guy that overcame something. We didn't overcome anything. We just won a big game at the end and we hadn't been doing that. For Joe to do what he's done over the last few years and turn his program completely around is really, really special. I don't think there's any question he's deserving of this award.

Brady Quinn

With the guys we have coming back and obviously our coaching staff and kind of the foundation we've laid last year for ourselves, our goal is to do it big, win every one.

We're really pulling together as a team and playing hard. We're doing it for coach, but he's not the only one we're doing it for - we're doing it for the fans.