Famous Quotes & Sayings

Their coaches do such a good job of recruiting the kids with passion and energy. You don't always see that. A lot of these college coaches are dry, have no personality and are very bland.

The most successful coaches on any level teach the fundamentals.

The most overwhelming response we've had has been from the college coaches because they will be in a feeding frenzy. The Final Four will be over. Signing day is over. Now they will be focusing on who they can sign in the fall of 2006.

The most important thing is who you hire on your staff, ... You have to hire people who are solid coaches in the NFL. Many college coaches don't know NFL people.

So when you get about 20 coaches most of whom have done very well together, it is like a reunion.

We had our share of success at St. John's, but you have got to have players, too. And I've had the good fortune to have had other good coaches to learn from.

Marcus Vick

We went into halftime and the coaches made a lot of great adjustments. They called the right plays and we just went out in the second half and tried to make it happen.

Brett's a very heady player. He does the little things and coaches take notice.

This is amazing. Growing up I'd see coaches take a team to the state tournament and was impressed. Now here we've done it five straight years, and it's all hard to believe.

Jim Irsay

This is a game I've been hoping to get for our franchise for several years, for all of our players and coaches and family and friends to experience it,

Mark Richt

This is a deserving tribute for a special young man. All of our coaches will be in attendance, and we look forward to seeing D. J. and his family appropriately honored.

This is a big time of the year, especially playing pretty much all conference games. (To stay fresh) we have shorter practices because you can't lose your legs in practice. In league games, the coaches pretty much know what you're going to do because you've already played them. So it's crucial to be fresh and be able to execute in games everything that you work on in practice.

Tom Jones

This is a big thing for us. It's been an interesting recruiting process. We've had so many coaches come through here looking at kids.

The players and coaches spend so much time and effort, you just want them to get it right. Regardless of whether you're on the good end of it or not. It could be a handful of plays during the season that can determine a championship.

The players and coaches have more confidence. We won two games on the road. The way we're playing, is helping our confidence.

The players and coaches are looking forward to this weekend's competition. Each player has been working hard this spring during individual workouts and has shown improvement. Team practices started this past Monday, and it was exciting to get all of the players together and practice in a team setting.

We've got the (National) Coaches Convention coming up. All of these guys are going to that, and you never know what's going to happen during that thing. A lot of job opportunities spring up during those meetings. I just want to wait until after that to see what I'm dealing with.

With so many kids and only two coaches there's only so much we can do.

Jason Richardson

The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together.

Ozzie Newsome

The third piece was the job that the coaches did last year, taking that young squad and developing some of those young players, and then being able to augment it this year. We looked at it and said, '03 and '04 were what we were shooting for.

The thing you need to take into consideration and that you hear coaches talk about all the time is the fact that you need to perform for the entire match. I thought at times we played well and other moments we had breakdowns that cost us.

The thing that is going to be fun for high school coaches and fans is that we will literally be able to see one of our homegrown quarterbacks on TV every Saturday.

It's a tough loss. It's going to hurt for awhile. But the kids have to be resilient, the coaches have to be resilient. It's still early enough in the season where we can still perhaps make a run in the league. But we have to improve. We have to find ways to win games like this.

Arnaz Battle

It's great, ... I feel like coaches are realizing the strengths that we have on this team, the type of players and what we can do ? the variety of things.

Alexandre Burrows

It was getting kind of tough, but the coaches kept showing confidence in me. It's always nice to score a couple of goals. That was a big win for us. Hopefully, I won't have to go through another slump like that.

Kim Williams

They're going to push each other in every event. You want to talk about a tandem. These coaches all look at them and say we don't have anything like that. I'm glad they don't.

They have liked how it has turned out. We know those coaches and respect their opinions.

There's a lot of interest from very qualified coaches, coaches who have had success at their programs. I was very surprised that it would create that kind of interest, and that quickly.

Jim Connors

There's a lot to be learned from the juniors and seniors, just keep working hard, even through the though times and you will be successful. I just realized recently that the coaches are created to make us better - remember that and respect them for it.

The relays are always super exciting. Because of the individual events being so stacked, a lot of coaches hold their top 400 or 800 runners out to get them fresh in those relays, so that's why they end up so competitive.

Norm Chow

There will be some things that are different that all college coaches go through when they get to the NFL. Spurrier comes to mind, and some of the adjustments he was forced to make and was reluctant to make at various times,'' Aikman said.

The safety of the visiting coaches and team, as well as the game officials and fans, is of the utmost concern.

Scott Campbell

The scouts have been out on the road all fall evaluating players, so the combine is the next step and it's really the first opportunity for the coaches to get involved and focus in on the players.