Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

Jim Boeheim

We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach who thinks he's overrated. Or that guy is already home.

Jim Boeheim

We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach that said he was 'overrated' pretty soon.

Rick McCallum

We thought about it, ... One of our assistant editors did the dialogue that George wrote for him. It was one line. It was never during shooting, but in post-production. He did a little Liam sound-alike but it just didn't work, (the scene) was more powerful without it. There was so much buzz about it on the Internet that Liam actually called me to find out if there was any truth to it. I said, 'No, we're going to do it without you this time.' You could feel that there was a presence of him there.

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.

Daryl Hall

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Spacey

I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.

I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coach - I was always an assistant - you always get those jitters, ... Am I doing this right? Am I doing this wrong? You grow with the kids.

I would like to try and get a graduate assistant position after I get my masters. Coaches from other teams tell me that they were a manager and then a graduate assistantthey were once in my spot.

Mike has a lot of fans in here. This team has grown to love Mike. Some of us have been with him since he was an assistant here.

Dave Nonis

Whoever the head coach is will obviously have some say in who his assistants are. I would be hopeful that they will be strongly considered and we will have something to say about that as well. They have done a lot of good work here. At this point they are still with us.

When you're in the (Southeastern Conference), there's not many places that are step-ups, even as an assistant to a head coach. (Syracuse) is one of those big step-ups. It was an opportunity that was presented to me and I was going to grab it.

We had great kids who improved as season went on. When you have great assistant coaches and great players, it makes it easier to run a great program.

Using different personal digital assistants is a complexity I don't want to get into.

We hope that the reform of the recruitment system for judges and the introduction of assistants will help establish a stricter system for entering the profession and that a better training system will improve the proficiency of judges.

We are disappointed that the BBC has not made a suitable offer in terms of how this process can be carried forward. The present terms for the new assistant producer role are not acceptable.

Rick was a great teammate. Rick is doing well. Who knows, maybe he will need an assistant coach one day.

My ultimate dream or goal would be to be the head coach at Purdue. There have been other college opportunities, but I am happier here as an assistant where my roots are.

Jonathan Maberry

One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.

I saw my brother Chet (now a South assistant coach) and his friends stuck together from football, ... They still talk.

Michael Ward

I saw that the county prosecuting attorney, Mike Nolan, was looking for an assistant county prosecuting attorney, ... I hadn't been to Athens before.

Our kids found a way to win. Our assistant coaches did a great job making calls and the crowd support was awesome.