Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Jones

Kids can really get better quickly. Here's another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.

Keith qualified at the last possible moment. It was very exciting because I've coached him since he was little.

I think it is a great experience to be able to go and represent your school and your program. I have been in a position that I coached in the North-South game, the Alabama-Mississippi game and the juniors game last season. I know what it is like to be in a game like this.

I also coached Alexander's dad (Gary). That's the first time that's happened.

Renee Fleming

He coached and prepared me for a 'Rosenkavalier' scenes program,

I think what you saw today was a poorly motivated, poorly coached team from BU,

I think it was obvious that the standard of skating tonight was not particularly good. I coached the same (system) for 45 years; now in two years you have to get ready for something else.

Bill Belichick

I coached this game with a heavy heart. My dad passed away. I found out about it the middle of last night.

I coached PL back in season 1997-98 and really enjoyed it. I have happy memories of my time there. We've not got our troubles to seek with injuries just now so I'm hoping there are no shocks this weekend.

Danny Elfman

I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and worm.

I coached at Maryland for five years. We were statistically as impressive a team as you can be on offense for many of those years. We couldn't win games. I want to win here.

I coached a lot of these girls before in summer and fall leagues so I know what they can and can not do.

I coached a lot of different systems and had success at all of them. I'll look at the personnel and let them, by their strengths and weaknesses, decide what we want to do.

Bill Cowher

He's coached in a lot of different places and tinkered with a lot of different ideas, but I've kept the same practice format that I learned from him for 14 years here. I guess he's gone the full cycle. He's always been very open-minded. He's receptive to change.

Tom Izzo

Paul, Mo, Shannon were just not the same players tonight. For 12 of 13 games, I thought that our three star players were as consistent as any group I've coached over the years, and tonight for whatever reason, we weren't as consistent.

Greg Schiano

If you start saying, 'We have to do this, this year, and we have to do that next year,' that's when you get in trouble. I've never coached like that and I'm never going to coach like that. I'm blessed. My job is my hobby. I'm never going to let it get to where I start coaching tight. That's not me.

If you're on offense, you're expected to play. When your number is called, you've got to do what we've been coached to do.

If you're expecting him to come in and be a ready-made player, I don't think so. The potential to be special is there, but he's just not there now. He's just not very physically strong right now. He really hasn't been coached a whole lot.

In the four years I've done it, I've coached 21 Division I players. Everything I do, I'm preparing myself to be a college coach.

Intense is the right word. You don't get days off with him. He's definitely a dictator. If you mess up in a game he's in your face about it. The older guys handle it a lot better. I imagine he's an intimidating guy for a 14-year-old who has never been coached like that. We got a guy who is dedicated to making you a better player. And that's never happened here.

I'll always remember this win. It was an important (area) game for us, but seeing all the guys I coached through the years - that's when it hit me.

I haven't heard anything about it. But who wouldn't want to be coached by a legend?

I'm pretty proud about what our guys did tonight. We played a good team that's coached by a good coach.

I'm excited to see him come back to the university. I liked the way he coached when he was there before and I liked his style. I was excited to see that (Erickson's hiring).

Andrew Luck

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

You turned on the film and you just got sick from the lack of effort. You had some guys here that couldn't be coached last year, and they're not here now.

Del Harris

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who doesn't have a ring. My key point is that none of the teams he's coached were good enough to win the whole thing. But did he get the most out of them that you could? Yes.

Jim Wright

Once he hits that, all previous games he coached are counted. It's a long-term policy. Once you've surpassed the minimums, we don't presume to go in and edit specific games.

John Calipari

That's quite a somber locker room in there. They had visions of winning this whole thing. It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody.

That's the fastest time of any runner I've ever coached down in Danville.

That's the fastest team I've ever coached against. They might eventually be ranked No. 1. I didn't think the game was won by 17 points; I thought it was closer. I think that if we could have made some free throws that we could have turned the corner.

That looked like volleyball. It's exciting when everyone executes what you've coached them in practice.

It's something I go to confession about. But I was a coach. I coached African-American kids. There's no way I think any less of people because of their skin color.