Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was like another assistant coach out there. Every time we came off the field, he was telling us things he had seen.

I also think he won't be a dictator but that he'll be an open coach. He wants his assistants to do their jobs. He also has good insight as to what is the purpose of high school athletics and what his kids will have learned when the season is over.

He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. Who's he?' Everybody has their day in the sun, and he had his today.

Ed Young

I was standing right next to my assistant coach and I couldn't hear anything he said to me during that whole timeout.

I wouldn't draw up that shot, but he has a lot of confidence. I drive my assistants nuts sometime, but I want to make sure these guys maintain their confidence.

I would expect Bush to appoint an assistant attorney general for antitrust who would settle for wimpy relief, but then you still have the 19 states suing, so it would be up to them.

Colleen Atwood

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

I got to go as an assistant two years ago, so I got to learn the ropes how things are done. As a head coach, you can pick the assistants. It's an honor. It only happens once a year, and there are a lot of coaches in the state.

I have great assistant coaches, and I rely on them. I don't have to do everything myself.

He was a really good assistant coach on our staff and he's going to do just fine. He doesn't need any words of wisdom. I'm excited for the kids that they'll be a part of the continuing Cathedral City tradition.

I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's football team, really just trying to set myself up for (coaching). When I got to Mitchell, I always liked basketball. I decided to help out. I was an assistant for a year. I already had gotten to know the kids and the job fell in my lap.

He is a good back, but we didn't wrap up. We just didn't make the plays tonight. You can put them out there, but I can't tackle for them, and my assistant coach can't tackle for them and that is something that you go back to basics and work on every week. Hopefully by week 4 we are going to be better.

He dispels the myth that good guys can't win. He brings out loyalty in people. All of his assistants have been there for quite awhile and want to stay loyal to him and the program. He's a person you would want to coach your son, a great motivator to young people.

When I am on the field, I am an assistant coach responsible to the head coach and I convey that attitude, ... I am a volunteer to help these young men kick the football. That's my job in that arena.

When you're a GM ? or a personnel manager or assistant GM ? you're already in the basketball world. Which isn't the world of dealing, of business, of thinking how this fits with that. I wanted knowledge that went to another level. I wanted a statistical side other people don't have.

When I was assistant coach of Harlequins, I came to Castres and got walloped, so I've seen what they are capable of,

When the mayor was elected, the administrative assistant was a position he requested be added. Because he was the first black mayor in Selma - something that got attention worldwide - he felt he needed someone skilled in administrative work. If you go into his office, he's rarely ever sitting there by himself. Calls came in all the time requesting him to speak and still do.

Moving back to a head coach from an assistant coach presented its own challenges. When you are the head coach you are setting the tone. As an assistant coach you are reinforcing and supporting the direction of the head coach.

One of the (Wright State) assistant coaches told me to get in touch with them when I decided what I wanted to do. I called them back Saturday and that happened to be the day they were playing Bowling Green.

One of our assistants suggested that four guards will open the floor and create penetration opportunities for us. We haven't been shooting the ball the way we did early in the season, so creating some opportunities for our inside people seemed like a good thing to do. Our kids responded to the change like troopers.

One of our assistant coaches, Lou Holtz, had a bet that Keyes would not get 25 yards. We skunked 'em.

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.

My assistant told me to keep my composure, but I hadn't said anything all game and I wanted them to know I wasn't happy with that call. The thing that upsets me most is now I have to go buy a box of pencils because I'm out.

My assistant told me there was a very insistent boy waiting to see me, who was a bit too cocky for his own good.

My assistants pay a lot of attention to that stuff, checking scores during the game and things like that. But I don't even know what the standings are. I know that it's going to be a dogfight until the end.

My assistants have been with me all the last eight years. Some of them have been there longer than that. Brian McDermott, I think, is going into his 20th year of coaching. Danny Malloy probably has 12 years. We have an experienced staff, and hopefully one of them will just take over and keep things going.

My assistant said he didn't have any problems with the track, and hopefully he doesn't.

My assistant Fran Amara said it was probably the best half he?s played this season. We really played like a team, making the extra pass and finding the open man. When we play like a team, we?re hard to beat.

My assistant (Doug Barba) and I were giggling over the summer. This is like the beginning of a good movie, and you can't wait to see how it ends.

My assistant coach kept telling to me take it to the goal and get fouled. I just had to slow down and concentrate and start knocking my free throws down.

My assistant coaches have watched them. I'm watching tape right now. They're a good team. Very athletic. But that's what were focused on and that's what's important right now.

Roger Corman

My father was an engineer, ... But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

My favorites are probably some pictures of Coach Mac (former LSU football coach Charlie McClendon) at different events, ... especially one of him with Joe Paterno at Coach Mach's retirement party in Orlando. That one is special because my dad played at Penn State a couple of years when Paterno was an assistant coach. Paterno was my dad's hero at Penn State.