Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Leinsdorf

I was an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan. It was my first trip to America. During that winter, Austria was swallowed up by the Nazis.

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.

He's getting a lot of praise from opposing coaches and umpires. He's pretty much an assistant coach right now.

We looked at the tape of the first two games to see what worked. I give credit to my assistant coaches. They remind me of those things.

I think it's totally inappropriate for the assistant state attorney to comment on the morality or ethics of the circumstances. Her job is to review whether or not a crime has been committed - period.

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.

From the assistants all the way up to coach Martelli, they do a good job of developing players. I'm looking forward to college life in general. The classes, the social life -- and basketball.

If it was some other coach, I could see the transition being horrible. But since he came from Iowa and was an assistant coach for so long and he knows a lot of the wrestlers, I think that is going to help out a lot.

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 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.

Bruce Vilanch

My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

Richard Lester

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

The physician assistant is known as a physician extender.

Alberto Gonzales

I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.

Anna Wintour

I like having young assistants in my office; they have energy, and I spend time with them to make sure they understand what we're doing. By investing in them, I'm investing in the magazine. All over 'Vogue,' 'Teen Vogue,' and 'Men's Vogue,' there are people who have been through not only my office but also many other offices at 'Vogue.'

Jimmy Johnson

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

You cannot turn yourself from an Assistant Manager to a Manager with a wave of your wand.

We wanted to get Jake closer to the football. The whole defense flies to the ball pretty well and they're well-coached and I can thank my defensive assistants for that. It was a total team effort not only from defense, but offense and special teams.

First and foremost, he has to find assistants who recruit the type of players that he wants, not the ones that they want. He has to find assistants that have a philosophy that's compatible with his as to how the game should be played.

We were taken aback by it. She was our head coach for the past two years. It was such a shock to hear she was going to be out for that long. It's tough that he came in as an assistant and all of a sudden you're a head coach, especially at a program like IHA.

Phil Jackson

When the game was in hand I tried to take him out. But my assistant Frank Hamblen said, 'I don't think you can do that. He's got 77 points'.

When we joined the NCAA, we could start doing more things. I had no volleyball assistant and (women's basketball assistant coach) Daniel Colvin was not on the campus except during basketball season.

When I watch Scott play, I do so differently than most parents. Yes, I am his father, but I am also an assistant coach, a role that I take very serious and use my experiences to help this entire team improve.

We overheard the assistant coach say we weren't very good. So we came out and we wanted to show how good we really were. We wanted to show them what we're made of.

Roz Chast

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

Sean Payton

We've worked hard to fill our coaching staff with assistants who know the game and have excelled at educating players on doing the little things that make a difference.

Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section championship. There's been a lot, that was number one.

We are so fortunate to have Heidi join our staff. Heidi has tremendous experience in the WNBA as both an assistant and as a head coach, as well as many years in the college game.