John Chaney
John Chaney
good health stay
I'm 73, ... I'll stay as long as my health is good and that's just the truth.
family reach sorry terrible trying
I am very, very sorry about this terrible tragedy. We are trying to reach out to his family. We are all very saddened about this.
door job life parade walk
I don't want to see a long parade of going around and celebrating...just do your job and just go on with your life. When you look at your life and put it in the right perspectives...you walk through that door and keep on moving.
asked came five last question since six talk
I don't want to talk about that at all. We've been asked that question for the last five or six years. I've been asked that question ever since I came to Temple. We'll talk about that some other time.
care center minutes played playing sure takes watching
For the minutes he played, he played well. I'm sure watching every minute he plays, because I don't want him to have a setback. He's still under doctor's care and he still takes medications. Very often you'll find him hyperventilating, and that's not good. We need him desperately, because we've been playing center by committee. That's not good. I don't like to do that.
came chance gave man people recognize university
I came here to recognize people at this university who gave a 50-year-old man a chance to come and coach.
both energy feed kids league offense takes team teams time
I don't think there's a team in the league that's better than us individually, both offensively and defensively. But it takes a long time to get kids to play with energy as a team. Team offense and team defense, there's many teams better than us. They don't feed off one guy.
along ball bounce dribble remember rest somewhere stay talk
They just want to bounce the ball and dribble the ball, but I talk about things that are going to stay with them for the rest of their lives. Somewhere along the line, it will reverberate and they'll remember it.
certainly finish fortunate lead learn nice
They've got to learn how to finish games. We were fortunate enough to get a nice lead and we really didn't finish the way I wanted them to finish. We certainly should not have won.
ability guys
Not just athletes, but guys who have an acumen, an ability to play this game.
chance decision faced gave great problem temple time traumatic
It's always a very traumatic time, but it is time. Temple gave me a chance to make my own decision and that's the great thing about it. Right now I'm faced with another problem with my wife, so it's the right time to go.
coach common foul hard player takes
It was a common foul. That was all it was. It was a hard foul that every player in the world takes and every coach in the world takes.
great teams
They're a great team. They know what they're doing. They're smart. Some teams are smart, but not tough. Some teams are tough, but not smart. This one's both. They've always been that way.
ball deserves four jim ordinary players shoot solve team
They?re not an ordinary team by any means. (The late) Jim Maloney said that shooters solve all your problems, and they have shooters. Villanova deserves to be No. 1 because no one can shoot the ball as well as the four players they have on the court, not even (No. 1) Duke.