Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

I found out about it the middle of last night, ... I coached this game with a heavy heart.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

Pat Riley

When it comes right down to it I coached a horrible game. I started the wrong lineup, I made the wrong substitutions and I called the wrong plays.

We respect New Zealand hugely. They are a great team, they've got great players. They are superbly coached and they've got a great record.

We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only four 2-point field goals. It was a true team effort.

We definitely had a chance. They're a well coached team, they run their offense well and do a lot of good things.

Karl Malone

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Bill Parcells

God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

We did some things wrong, but for the most part, they were doing what they were coached to do. They were executing today. We train to possess the ball, and that's probably 75 percent of our training sessions. It's something that we work on a lot, and it was pretty well done.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

Kevin Constantine

Over the last five years, every goalie Shane has coached has been in the top of his league, ... Shane deserves this opportunity, and the Silvertips organization wishes him the best.

Taurean Green

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

Bill Self

I think (conference tournaments) get teams (prepared) to play the whole year. I coached at Oral Roberts when it was an independent. Try telling those kids on Feb. 10 the rest of the season means something.

I thought the kids did a great job after I left. I was proud of my kids. They did everything I'd coached them to do.

I think we're on the right track for next season. I think that getting out here, getting coached by all the new coaches, has been a good thing for us and kind of propelled us past the rebuilding stages with the coaches.

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

I think it's time that I rest a little bit. I've coached three sports here at South for a long time, and I also teach a pretty heavy load. And, I tell you what, it's a lot of work.

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.

Lindy Ruff

I think this is the most talented team that I've coached here.

Lauren is a leader by example. She's passionate about the game and does a good job. She is a different type of player than I've coached in the past. She's really unselfish and will do whatever it takes to win.

Bobby Ross

I think they'll be moving up in the rankings. They're as big as any team I've coached against, and that includes my 13 years in the National Football League. They're really big.

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.

Mike Thibault

It is a great experience. The two teams I coached on the men's side were some of the most exciting moments in my coaching life. Obviously winning NBA Championships and CBA Championships and being in the WNBA Finals are all highlights. But playing and coaching for your country in a gold medal game is pretty intense.

Knowing that this is the last time I've coached those seniors was the hardest thing about all of this. I just told them that they should realize that they started something that they can forever be proud of.

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.

Roy Williams

What I think now is that it allows them to get coached by listening to their teammates handle what perhaps could be difficult questions.

I would like to think it had an impact. I've coached in this state for a long time, and I know a lot of coaches. I think people know what I stand for and what I will instill in my players.

None of those service members were coached as to what to say.

Geno Auriemma

No one ever talks about our defense. Our defense has always been good. But when you have great offensive players like I've coached the last 15 years, it's hard to concentrate on our defense. But our defense has been pretty good.

Gary Pinkel

Shoot, when I was in Seattle, in our 15 spring practices when I coached at Washington, 13 of them were like this. So I just I felt like I was back at home.

Mike Thibault

She had already played in the league a couple years before I coached her, so she had already proven that she was worthy of being in the league. And she's been to the Final Four twice. She knows how to win.

She's a great player, as good as I've ever seen and coached against.