Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Smith

He's a leader by example. He's not real verbal but he plays hard. He's always where he is supposed to be. He always does what I ask him to do. And when he does that, the other guys follow him. He knows the team is watching, so he always gives everything his best.

Jeffrey Lurie

He's a leader, a top-notch human being and somebody you can't ask more of. He's exceptional in every way.

Cris Carter

He said 'You've got to follow your heart. He said when he talks to prospects at the Scouting Combine every year and asks them who the most influential person in their life was, most of them don't say their mom or their dad. It's their high school football coach. He said it's been one of his regrets that he wasn't a high school coach.

He's a special kid for us. You've got two Division I basketball players. You've got E.J. Jones getting all the attention in football and Joe is already getting the attention. Then there's Mark doing his job every day, coming in and just putting in the hard work just like everybody else and not really asking anything in return.

He's asking you to say that what he did is all right. It's a crime. What he did is a murder.

He's asking good questions, and when he makes a mistake, he realizes it immediately. When something went wrong last year, he'd get a look on his face that said, What am I supposed to be doing?

He's asking for approvals before we see the whole thing. That's not the way it's usually done.

Steve Yzerman

He's asking a lot of questions, picking everybody's brain, trying to get a feel for everyone, ... He's very serious, very attentive to the details of each drill we did, stressing a high tempo and skating, and I assume that's something that's going to be stressed throughout training camp and the season.

He's asked several times to return to Washington. ... He'd like to die here. And we have declined because we want to ensure that he never returns to this community where he harmed children.

He's asked questions in the past and helped teachers to develop Web pages. He seemed to be pretty helpful.

Mark Messier

He's as good as we've seen here, probably ever. He's done everything you could ask for from a star player.

Matt Birk

He's as good as there is. Just from the little bit I know about him from some Pro Bowls and around the league, he's a quality guy, too. When people were asking me about the deal he signed, I said if anybody's worth that kind of money, he is. In my opinion, he's that good.

Buck Showalter

He's as good as I've had. He's a special competitor. His substance is his style, his style isn't his substance. He's a guy that everybody asks about. They want to know if he's as good as he seems to be. He's better.

He's a senior -- you expect your seniors to rise to the occasion when asked to do something. That's the job of the seniors and he came through for us.

Jeff Gordon

He's always got that positive attitude. He works hard. He doesn't ask to be treated different or given anything special. Everything that he's gotten, he's earned from hard work, and I think he brings the same work ethics into the crew chief job.

He's always been straight-up. He is everything you can ask for in a manager. If I ever become a manager I will definitely take a page out of his book.

He's also a former soccer player who was interested in kicking for us. Then during the summer, he asked to run a few routes -- and he's obviously fast. He looked good.

He's got it right. He wants us to play a pressure, puck-control style of game and also take care of our own zone. I think he's going to give the offensive guys the leeway to use their talents, and as a player, that's all you can ask for.

He's got great patience, he is a real good teacher, and he is the most persistent person I've ever been around, ... Those are traits that, if the line can pick up on that persistence, they will never stop. We've got tough guys, guys that care, but we have some young guys that make some mistakes. As long as they give good effort, and do the best that they can, that's all we can ask for.

He's got a veteran offensive line in front of him. We just ask them to give a seam and hopefully Jude can break it.

He's been scoring goals. He's been setting up goals. He's going to the net hard. He's back-checking and playing well in his own zone. He's done everything we've asked him.

He's been raised around basketball since he was conceived. The only thing we've asked of Billy is to continue to nurture and teach him to become the best possible basketball player he can possibly be. Coach Donovan and his coaching staff are doing a remarkable job. I couldn't have put him in a better hand that Coach Donovan.

Nick Knight

He's a very impressive character and has great standing in the game and I'm sure that will serve him well if he is asked to work with England.

He's a very good father. I couldn't have asked for a better father. He loved his kids.

He's a typical kid, but the difference is that Cody wants to learn and a lot of people don't want to learn anymore. Cody works hard and basically does everything we ask him to do.

He's a typical gym rat. After I send everybody home, he stays and shoots jumper after jumper and free throws. He stays 20 or 30 minutes after every practice and I have to tell him to go home. A couple of times, I gave the guys the day off, but he's the first guy to ask if he can come in and shoot.

B. F. Skinner

He's doing everything he needs to do and he's just fulfilling his end. It's just a wait-and-see attitude with us to see if he finishes out and does what we ask him to do. If he does, then we can sit down and talk about it and, hopefully, have the type of outcome everybody's looking for.

He seems to have gotten a lot better. A lot of the things that we were working on with him were mental and technical. He's done a real nice job of doing what the coaches have asked him.

Bill Belichick

He's done what we've asked him to do. I don't think that he's had any problem with it,

He showed me some guts tonight. They kinda made us work for this win and my horse responded when I asked him. That impressed me a lot. He was parked out a long way and still has some speed left over at the finish.

He showed improvement. That's all you can ask for.

Bill Self

He showed a play they ran to win a game in the last second with Danny (Manning). We talked about multiple things. He always asks about how everybody is doing here (at KU). He loved coaching here.

Hans Blix

He should not have had them. I asked him how he got them and he would not tell me,