Famous Quotes & Sayings

We weren't supposed to lose this game, but they're the No. 1 team in the country, they are very well coached and they did a great job. My hat goes off to those guys. They are excellent.

When a guy like that with that stature -- who has coached some of the greatest linebackers in the game -- for him to say that means a lot to me.

Vestal's a good football team. I thought Vestal is as good a coached team as we've seen in two years. They're excellent.

Bill Snyder

There's no doubt there will be things that will be different from when we played them two years ago. We can run ourselves silly looking at Ohio State tape (when Mark Snyder coached there), this year's Marshall and looking at our game with them.

There's no fire-and-brimstone lecture (for tonight's game). It's a game we want to win because we want to win our 19th game, and we want to play in the postseason. Not because it's Rice. And that's no disrespect to Rice. I've never coached that way.

There's nothing harder and more unpredictable than high school state tournaments. I don't know if I've ever seen a team persevere better. I know I've never coached one, but I don't know if I've ever seen one.

Chad Pennington

I feel comfortable and confident enough to where we can go in and execute the offense the way I'm coached to do,

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.

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.

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

Jim Johnson

I've had a lot of thrills in coaching. I've coached a lot of wonderful kids. But I've never experienced such a thrill.

It was back and forth, and McDowell is a well-coached team, coached by a legend. It was special. It was senior night. There were times when it was back and forth, and the girls just kept believing. They were not going to be denied.

It's the first time I've ever coached a player who every year qualified for states. It's even more pleasing that it's a female who qualified on her own merits.

Buddy Bell

It just didn't make any sense to me. I've never played, managed or coached a game like that. To see a big league game like that is unheard of. I've never seen anything like that. I hope I don't see it again.

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.

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.

Ben Howland

He's the only player I've ever coached where I threaten him if he goes 100 percent.

He's the most skilled player I've coached in 25 years.

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

He's the fastest player I've ever coached and will be the most recruited player. He not only can turn a corner, but he has great vision and just a general knack for the game.

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

I don't know if I've ever coached in a game with four turnovers.

We're playing a very good fundamentally coached team. They play man-to-man defense and they run up and down the floor.

Larry Brown

I've never coached that way, where we've never had a set rotation, except my first year in San Antonio, we had a lot of injuries. That's really hurt the team. It hurts your progress. All of a sudden, we settled on David at the three and we have the three-guard rotation for the most part. It helps everybody, I think.

I've never coached a player in 34 years who prepares like he prepares. To the detail, to the consistency, to how much he stresses the importance of getting himself into his game mode.

They're not going to go away. They're talented, extremely well coached and they're not going to quit. This time, we made the shots and free throws we needed in the fourth quarter. Last time, we didn't.

Mark Richt

The same guy that recruited those guys also coached them and that shows. Those guys went from having a lot of potential to having a big impact and that doesn't happen by accident. It takes guidance.

Pat Riley

I've seen a lot of plays like that. I coached Magic Johnson.

You're going to be coached to be a pro. You're going to be pushed to where you may not even know you have this level. That's a big deal with me. You're not always going to like it, but you're going to be treated honestly and you're going to be treated fairly.

Billy Gillispie

Got a good whipping tonight. They played harder than us. They played much, much, much smarter than us. ... They executed, played with discipline, they played hard, they got to the basket, they did what they were coached to do. They have good players, and I can see why they are getting better in a hurry.

All of them have coached and/or played in a really competitive conference. There's a lot of experience there and that's helping a lot.