Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Gibbs

We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody -- the coaching staff, the players -- together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we've got something going here.

When I was coaching college ball, we did a lot of recruiting and saw a lot of high school games, and I'll be honest, it was like a state championship atmosphere; it was that crazy.

We would get in one-on-one situations with her and then pass the pass for some reason. That really frustrated us as a coaching staff.

This year has been a lot tougher than last year. This is probably one of the toughest coaching jobs I've ever had. You're getting everybody's No. 1; there's no hiding. Trying to repeat is the toughest thing.

Kevin Garnett

Coaching takes patience.

Tony Gwynn

For the coaching staff, when we pulled in and saw the ballpark, man, memories just start.

Nadia Comaneci

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

Katherine Paterson

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

I don't like long hair, and with coaching wrestling it was especially tough. Kids were always telling me to get it out of their faces.

Our defense was the difference tonight. This is my fourth year coaching and I've never seen defense like that. Holding a team to four points in a half is impressive.

After significant evaluation, we feel that now is the time to make a coaching change.

A few weeks ago, a few moments ago, whatever, I had made my decision that I wasn't going to come back for another year of coaching at Idaho State. It's time for a new voice for this program, for a new direction, a new teaching of the game.

The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't get to see me, but he'll have a seat from above.

During the last five games, we've limited teams to shooting a combined 38 percent. We're most happy as a coaching staff with the way we have been playing at the defensive end.

Gary Williams

Coaching was easy tonight because the game was so hard. It sounds funny, but when you have to coach a game like that, you do whatever it takes to win.

Coaching them is a pleasure. That's why when they come out and have a half like that, it's like you don't know what to do because you don't see it very often.

Coaching keeps me very busy, but I love it. When I went into teaching, I knew I wanted to coach, too.

Coaching is very very satisfying... watching players put in place in games what you have taught them at training can be rewarding.

Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

Coaching is a roller-coaster ride sometimes for all of us. Yes, this has been a difficult year, but this team knows what it needs to do.

Coaching is an emotional thing, but I don't think I've ever been around guys that are any tougher than these guys.

Coaching in college was fun because you travel so much, but my family and friends are here and it's good to move back.

Coaching at my alma mater has been a dream come true.

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Coming to Furman to play quarterback was just natural for me. But I knew I wanted to go into the coaching field.

Tom Izzo

Sometimes you look like, 'Who's coaching that team?' because you're not doing anything on the post guy. But when you have four three-point shooters that are shooting 50 percent or better, it's hard to double down on them. They're a tough team to beat. They have so many weapons.

Sometimes you get conflicting reports, but everyone is on the same page. And it's starting to show that everybody is coaching the same thing. You just have to listen to all the information and stick to the plan.

(Rosetta) started the same year at the Tribune as I did coaching in 1964. ... Rosetta is the one that called me. He said, 'Ted, you will never guess what.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Finally, way, way, way overdue, you've been inducted into the Hall of Honor, and I get to escort you.' He was as tickled as I was.

Ron McBride is more like my father than a father-in-law, ... Pat would say the same thing. He has influenced my style of coaching more than any other person; the way he gets guys to play hard and cultivates good, long relationships.

Right now we're still trying to search for that win. It doesn't get any easier. ... It's all in our control. We're the ones playing. All the coaching staff can do is continue to create strategies and game plans for us to go out and execute. We have to play the game.

I've only been coaching 10 years total, but I know you don't get a group like this very often.

It was a little odd coming back and not coaching for the school I'd enjoyed for so many years. This place fit me like a glove.

The six seed is fine with me. Any seed would have been fine with me. Just to be in the NCAA Tournament with this coaching staff and the four other seniors and myself, that's where I want to be.