Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jay

In all my years as a coach and an assistant coach in this league, I don't know that there's ever been more key players missing games than this year.

Brad Goreski

I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.

I knew I always wanted the chance to play for Danny. When I was with the Edmonton Eskimos and he was an assistant coach with Calgary, I wasn't dressing my first year and he was in the spotter's booth and he'd always tell me: 'It's a good league. Be patient.' Just those little words of encouragement meant a lot. When he became a head coach, I had the urge to play for him just once in my career.

I knew one of his assistants had left to go to Penn State Beaver and I thought he might need some help. I probably would have ended up as a volunteer coach some place, but Scott told me to come over and that's how it started.

I knew we would probably start slow (offensively). The one thing we stressed this week was defense. A constant effort on defense should be there all the time. That's what kept us in the game early. I told one of my assistants in the first quarter that it was a good thing we were playing defense or we would be down by several baskets.

I liked what I saw and was lucky enough to get a job as an assistant doctor at the Essen University Medical College.

I let the assistant coach do all the talking.

John Higgins

I left as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at (Robert E.) Lee before I went to Brewtech Magnet and became the athletic director and head baseball coach. I have also been at Lanier High as the offensive coordinator and spent a couple of years as the head coach at Georgia Washington Jr. High, in Montgomery.

I learned how to run a program. He let me do some things, and he let me have a little more freedom than most assistant coaches.

I like being assistant where you don't have any pressure on you. We didn't play a great game. They (Titusville) always play well at home. We stuck together and didn't fold, and this is an easy place to fold. I've been a part of it. I think we grew up a little bit tonight.

Fran McCaffery

I have people that work for me that report to me. I report to other people. I have a budget to control. I have correspondence that leaves this office and comes to me. I have to manage my time and my assistant coaches.

I'm sure not a lot of people will be able to tell that story. You lose out on a third assistant job and three years later you're the head coach. That's kind of unique.

Noll went home for dinner and suggested his assistants do the same.

Jamie Dixon

I want guys who want to be head coaches. To be a good head coach you have to be a good assistant first. I want our guys looking at head coaching jobs and preparing to be head coaches because that makes them good assistant coaches.

It takes a lot more people than just me to get an award like this. You're going to have to have really good assistant coaches.

There's a good assistant out there that played for me, Danny Sprinkle. At some point I think getting him back would be good.

There's no doubt in my mind I understand basketball as well as anybody. My assistants and I have a good relationship and we talk every night, but from day one I've had the final say.

Norv Turner

There's no dynamic involved - I work for Mike. I've been an assistant coach for over half the time that I've been in this league. I know my role.

I started off working in the kennels and was assistant lure driver but the bloke who was the driver was required to do shift work and I took over after about six months,

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.

I know late in the game, one of the assistants said Matt Simmons must have had 15 rebounds. Every time we needed a big one, he got it. He plays like a horse out there.

I have the luxury of having a head-coach caliber assistant coach. He knows our tradition and focuses in on the defense. He's unpaid and is greatly appreciated.

I prepared in the long run, conditioning and training, with Coach Cochrane and Christina Winkler, our assistant coach. ... I really didn't expect a provisional at all.

Ed Orgeron

I just know that we did the right thing, ... We called an assistant coach and said that we heard that football may not be going on at Tulane, and we would like to go through the proper channels when the time comes.

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.

If you can't get excited about this, you might as well leave the profession. This is the only way any of us know how to do it. All of us are in the same boat. I work the same hours as an assistant coach, as a coordinator. I'm sure John (Fox) worked the same hours as a coordinator as he does as a head coach. We kind of all leave out of here together a lot.

Taylor Schilling

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

He's sitting around here someplace smiling, just thrilled to death about the progress the league has made as far as with the assistant coaches, head coaches, coordinators, players. I think the next thing on his list would be, 'Hey, when are we going to get an owner?' Knowing him, that's what he would say.

He's the consummate freshman football coach. When you listen to Fred talk to his assistant coaches about who they should play, it's all grade-point averages and who will play varsity as a senior.

Mark Shapiro

I had nothing to do with that. I was in the room, but I was the assistant general manager. I didn't make any of the calls.

Cody Horn

I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.

Jason Varitek

I'm very upset we're losing a guy like him. We also lost our assistant GM (Josh Byrnes), who's a very good baseball man. We seem to have a lot of that going around.

Matt Dillon

I'm the happiest for the kids and the assistant coaches because they've been working their tails off and it paid off. It feels great.