Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

I owe him all the credit for what we've done here. He's an exceptional coach and he's got a great opportunity. I want everyone to know that I think he was the best junior college assistant coach in the country and I appreciated all of his hard work.

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.

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 went on a tour and met the assistant coach and I really liked her.

Between the assistant principals, Dr. Robison and Dr. Dearing, we have a very experienced administration.

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.

The physician assistant is known as a physician extender.

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.

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.

Miguel Syjuco

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

We didn't panic and that had a lot do to with our assistant coaches. They did a good job of not letting me panic on the sidelines. I was trying to stay composed, but I was nervous.

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.

Sathya Baba

You may be very wealthy and have servants and assistants to help in a few tasks, but your own work you must do yourself.

Caron Butler

What an event like this in any community accomplishes is bringing people together for goodness,'' said Leito, who was an assistant at Connecticut when Butler played there.

Derek did a great job working on our staff as a graduate assistant coach. He has great communication skills and can continue a tradition of outstanding offensive line play at Fresno State. Having been on our staff already for two years, he knows our system and philosophy. Additionally, I know he is going to be a great recruiter for Fresno State.

Larry Davis

Dave is not a big self-promoter, but his assistants, that's their job. You've got to say, 'Hey, this guy recruited Tim Duncan and developed Tim Duncan.' That's the thing the assistant coaches are selling the devil out of.

Dave's relationship with half our team -- and it was the core half -- had really been cemented as the assistant coach. I thought it was important to bring in someone with a different type of personality.

Hubie Brown

Then he was an assistant at Kansas under Larry Brown and was just an excellent assistant. He was very organized and liked to work with front-court people. He's very offensive-minded. He was a good half-court teacher and (good) when you got into your half-court sets. When he had his opportunity at Indiana and San Antonio, they did well offensively.

Jon Postel

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.