Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.

It's not about transactions. It's a service. It's like a personal assistant who receives, organizes and stores your bills.

It's all about the players every night. We can stand there and tell them what to do, but they're doing it. And all the credit goes to the players and my assistant coaches, Ray Bennett and Mark Hardy. They were fantastic. I kind of struggled on the bench at times because of the pace the game was going, so it's going to take some time.

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.

It's like I said before. Certainly there is a good measure of satisfaction in that. My job is to prepare the guys. It's their job to go out, play and win. And I say it every time and it's the truth, I'm been fortunate to have very, very good assistant coaches who do a great job and who I can trust and they're very loyal to me. And I've had very, very good players. That's how you win a lot of games. You have good players around you and you coach a long time.

It's so much bigger than me. I'm the figurehead for thousands of people that have contributed. As much as anything, it's been the players, the assistant coaches and those people that work very closely with our team.

Chris Neil

Everybody saw it. You want to talk to the referee about a call he makes and you can't even go near the guy ... Even the captains and the assistant captains weren't able to say anything because he wasn't willing to listen. Everybody was frustrated.

I've got the best assistants in the world with Howard (Jones) and Lacy Johnson. When she says something the kids really listen. She said it's fundamental you've got to have fun, and you've got to bring your mental game. If they play hard and play smart, they're going to have fun. If we do that, I know I'm going to have a good time.

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

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.

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.

Kirsten Dunst

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

Frank Beamer

I don't mind saying it. Probably the biggest holdup right now is my assistant coaches. I feel strongly I've got a great staff. If you look at Bryan Stinespring and Bud Foster and Jim Cavanaugh, and I could go on down the line. If you see what they mean to this program, then they need to be paid well.

He promised a teacher's assistant that he would do no harm to the students.

I am very pleased that the greatest player that has lived has chosen me to be his assistant again. Obviously, Jack thought I was a good sounding board for the decision-making process throughout the competition. I would have loved to have made the team, but this is another honor that I wish more players could experience in their careers.

I am very grateful for the opportunities that being in high school administration gave me. But the number of hours the assistant principal job was taking and with the football program grown to the point it has, there just are not enough hours in the day and my family was starting to suffer.

Jim Calhoun

He's one of the best assistants and one of the best evaluators of talent that I've ever been around, ... I think in the next week or two we are going to try to name him associate head coach because he's been that good.

By firing my assistant the board is undermining township government and the fiscal officer.

His attitude has been terrific. (Glynn, an assistant captain, and Nanavati) have handled it perfectly. They both played last year and pretty much split their duties. Their attitudes have been terrific. They understand that. Without that positive attitude, I don?t think we are going to have the same success.

But it is more than just the teachers who create a good learning environment for the students. It's the bus drivers and cooks and janitors and teaching assistants and secretaries.

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.

I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.

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.

I like this gym. I've been doing pretty well. Coach (Jared) Casper, our assistant coach, tells me to trust my muscle memory. I've shot a million threes in my life. It's different here (E Center) because the background is so far away, but I just shot it the way I always do.

I really took it because he was here. I didn't know what I was walking into. I wouldn't be able to do it without him. By him being a recruiter and assistant in Lufkin and doing it for so many years, he was able to get it together for me. All I had to do was walk on the floor.

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.