Famous Quotes & Sayings

Girls don't have many role models because there are so few of us in coaching, ... I see myself as a role model because I've gone through the things these girls have gone through. Maybe I can help them through situations that another coach can't.

Andrew Ference

Getting Dion this year made up for losing a lot of other people. Of course he has a learning curve, but he doesn't have big holes in his game. He just has tiny details he has to work out, and the coaches love working with a guy with that much talent.

Free throws were huge. Our coaches work us hard at the line.

David Allen

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher, motivator, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

Roy Williams

Fourteen years ago I thought it was neat to win this award, and now I'm so much more appreciative of it. From the first day of practice this team was fun to coach yet they were focused on what they had to do.

Dwane Casey

From a coaching standpoint, I would say I would like to have other players involved. He's a great player, you can't take that away from him. It's entertaining, it's good for the league. Whether it's good for his teammates, I don't know.

From a coaching standpoint, I was very concerned not as much with the score, but more so with the fact that we weren't doing anything right. Everything we practiced the day before was not running correctly. We really needed to settle down.

From a coaching standpoint, it's been an interesting year and a good year because the kids who are playing for me suck up the knowledge of the game like leeches. They just want to learn and get better.

Taylor Twellman

From an outsiders point of view, you're graded on whether you score or not. But that's not true with coaches and teammates. It's also a matter of what I do away from the goal to help the team. I've never focused on just scoring goals. My goal has been to be a good teammate and help out defensively whenever I can.

From an NBA job, coming down and coaching college, you really don't see that too often.

From Day 1, the guys made me feel at home. Once the game started, I felt pretty comfortable. (Blaze coach Danny) White did a great job of keeping it simple tonight. The guys responded around me and did a great job.

Vance Law

From where I was, I didn't see it. But coach Roberts said it was an unbelievable swing.

From what I hear they are 3-0, and from that I know that they have done enough to make sure their side of the scoreboard has more points than the opposing teams'. I hope they continue to win football games for the sake of the university, players and the coaching staff.

B. F. Skinner

From Tom I really learned I could be the coach I wanted to be while being the person I wanted to be.

I don't think about the NBA. Getting to the NCAA Tournament is what I think about. If coach (Wayne Morgan) recommends I go to the NBA, then it will happen. I wouldn't know. I just play.

If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's up to the veterans and the pitching coach to step in and not let that happen.

I don't think we're all of a sudden going to magically overturn years of how things have been done here, ... But I think management and coaches are seeing we have some more options now.

I don't think we quit. I don't think I quit. . . . I'm sure, from a coaching standpoint, it looked like we quit.

I don't think words could express how I feel about coaching my son,

If a coach looks good to us, he probably looks good to other people and we'll have to see how many will come in.

If a coach allows that to happen, it'll happen more and more. In my case, I teach my players that I'll treat them fairly, but not equally. They're not equal.

Cartier Martin

I enjoy having Coach Wooldridge here. I think he's a great coach. Hopefully, he stays.

I don't think it will be that tough to get up for this game. I know coach is going to get us fired up. ... We will be ready to go Monday night.

I don't think it's ever mattered to Spencer whether he scores any points or not. He's just trying to do what the team needs him to do and he's always going to do exactly what the coach wants him to do.

Steve Alford

I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed from the home crowd, that's never something that is positive. As far as me getting cheers, that's happened for a long time there...that's my alma mater, that's where I played, I won a national championship there.

Steve Alford

I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed by their home crowd.

I don't think I've ever heard him yell in (the wrestling room) and most coaches get you going by yelling. He just never yells and the reason you want to work your butt off for him is because you respect him so much you don't want to let him down.

From the coaches to the players, we're excited about playing Richards. It gives us the opportunity to gain respect.

Andy Reid

From the coaches to the players, everyone was embarrassed about Monday night. They weren't going to let that happen again.

For us to come in after 17 years of never being in the postseason since Coach Huggins was here, you couldn't write a better script then to play Temple. For a fledgling group like us, to come in and be able to play them is just a great honor.

Bill Romanowski

For two straight weeks, all we talked about was how good the Packers' offense was, how tough their defense was, how outstanding their coaching was. Every clich in the book, we used. Every time I uttered another compliment about the Packers to the press, I wanted to puke.

Al Groh

Fortunately, there is an easy way and the coach doesn't have to be very smart to figure that out and minimize that problem.

Paul Hewitt

For this entire streak, for some reason or another, we just can't some out of the locker room with the type of energy we need. As I told the guys, it's obviously something we're doing as a coaching staff. We just can't seem to get things going at the start of the second half.