Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

Matt is just a tremendous worker in every sense. We have guys on this team like Matt who can really play. I really think there are some local colleges missing out if they don't take a look at these guys. They are great athletes and basketball players.

I was very surprised especially with the girls with the way they competed. We stocked all the relays with everyone. All the relays are worth double points. It is a relay meet. All the kids who were our top athletes ran the relays.

I was expecting our athletes to do their best and be competitive.

Mike Powell

It feels good to be back home. This has been my dream coaching job and now I'm here. My goals are to help the program become stronger and I look forward to helping our athletes perform well at the conference, West Region and NCAA meets, and beyond. I plan on using the same determination, dedication and hard work in my coaching that helped me set the world record.

Michael Flynn

I still see it as a training block and I am expecting the athletes to be racing hard, and they'll have some extremely good racing in that period.

I think our teams are a lot a like and I think it's dead even going into this game. We have similar-type athletes and both teams are physical. I think this game is going to come down to who has the most character. It should be low-scoring and just a battle to the end.

I think of the many outstanding athletes that went though that school. To be honored with them is something very special. I never looked at myself as a great athlete, I'm just a common old guy who enjoys competing in sports.

We had turnover within the coaching staff and within the personnel of the team which are negative signs, ... Some of our student athletes were having trouble succeeding academically, which is a bad trend. ... I think this coach will restore a lot of that discipline.

We had to work this year. Last year we had some pretty fast horses and any one of these athletes could win. But this year took more of a strategy, who?s gonna go when, who?s not. We need our best players at the end, but we also need them to be pressure ready.

We have a lot of schools coming out, which means a lot of kids. So far, we have 800 students signed up to compete. It would be great for all those athletes that the cheer squads support all year round to come out and support their spirit squads on Saturday.

We've got seven or eight athletes who can really put the ball in the basket. That's how we can be successful in games. We don't have to rely on just one or two players.

We've got a lot of weapons, to where a lot of teams won't be able to just isolate one or two of our players. When we run the floor, when we get it going, our athletes look pretty tough out there. It's a fun team to watch when they get to running the floor.

Using the training runs is a nice tool to show what the athletes can do on the track.

We have our work cut out for us. We've done this for many years and used to go to Columbus to play bigger programs with a lot Division I athletes and always held our own. We'll see what happens.

We have one month in the fall when all the athletes do is weight train a few times each week.

(White) has been on everyone and she's just getting better. She played JV ball last year. She waited her turn, and a lot of athletes don't do that.

We are a young team. Our younger athletes need to step up and compete at a high level.

We hope he's OK. You don't wish this on anybody. ... The athletes are very unlucky and this is not funny for Austria. It's very sad that this happened.

Abby Wambach

We're a great team. We can play this game, and we've got a lot of naturally talented athletes who are ready to work to be better.

We expect a difficult time in terms of the environment going in but clearly we've got some great athletes to face those challenges.

We really worked hard tonight to share and distribute the ball. We have a lot of great athletes on this team ... a lot of great characters. And they just keep improving.

We got beat by a pretty good team. Ephrata has some great athletes with a lot of basketball talent.

It doesn't matter what kind of offense a team is running. You have to have enough good athletes to match up. If all a team does is run and you can't stop the run, you are in trouble, and if all a team does is pass and you can't stop the pass, you're in trouble.

I tell my athletes you have to make your own luck. I was a hard worker. I was known as a hard worker and I fell short.

I think he's one of the greatest athletes who has ever walked the planet.

Linford Christie

It disappoints me that he has not got the recognition he deserves as a coach. He should be out there coaching more athletes on a national basis. If I'm the best sprinter in Britain, then he has to be the best coach.

The athletes were energetic and excited to start on bars, but they were a little conservative. They wanted to stay on and get through it to have an opportunity to perform well on the next event.

Robert Greene

The athletes said they were not prepared to come back to the village.

The athletes can be under cover if they're not competing, instead of having to stand there and get soaked.

The athletes are youngsters whose time is still to come.

The athletes are up for the challenge. They're focused and I think our confidence is riding high. With two weeks before conference I think they really want to put up a good showing. This will be a very good test for us to see where we are mentally. If we can go out and execute as well as we have this year I think we'll be happy with the results.

The athletes are happy he's sticking around and that he'll be in that leadership role. It's going to be a smooth transition.