Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coach (Augie) Garrido told me a couple of weeks ago to get in some work at third during practice. I didn't know I would be playing there until I saw the lineup card.

Coach (Arnold) Gonzalez does a good job over there, and we work well together. He lets me know about potential players, and we try to take a look at as many of those guys as we can.

Ken Whisenhunt

Coach and I talked about that at the end of the preseason and he was concerned about where we were from passing game standpoint.

Solomon Jones

Coach always tells us we have to find a way. It's what we have to do, instead of thinking what we could do if we had this player or this player. Nobody expects us to win any games from here on out, so we just have to plan on a lot of upsets.

Coach always tells us to keep a cool head in a hot game.

Coach always tells us everybody wants to take the top dog down. I'm kind of surprised we're undefeated, but deep down we know we can handle anybody.

Coach always tells me to stay in front of my guy and work hard on defense, and that's what I've tried to do. It's great to play here and I love it here because of the atmosphere. The energy you feel when you walk into this gym is awesome, and you have to come ready to play because everyone is here to watch us.

Coach always taught us not to give up. When we were down by five, we were going to keep fighting. We knew we could come back.

Coach always says you have to keep fighting until the game is over, if you are up 20 or down 20. We have to play hard every minute we are on the court.

Coach always says to relish everything from your senior year. Going through everything we have, I'm sure I'll remember this more. It's the same feeling as when I was a freshman, but I'm sure I'll remember this more.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Coach always says, if someone is hot, keep going to him.

Coach always puts us in the same lane. We train together and we've become better friends. We always hang out. Even though he's a guy, I look up to him because he's a badass swimmer.

Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen.

Coach always does a great job of instilling confidence in me.

Coach Adams has a first-hand understanding of our football tradition and a wonderful vision for what is possible going forward. There have been a lot of positives within the football program over the past seven months and we are looking forward to seeing these play out as success on the field.

Coach Abell does a good job of making you play his pace. We knew coming in they'd try to make it half-court game.

Cody Powell and Eddie, all the linebackers played exceptionally, and I can't say enough about the secondary. (Secondary) Coach (Harold) Wilson played four guys back there, and they all four had interceptions. Replacing eight guys, yeah, they've done a super job.

Coming to Furman to play quarterback was just natural for me. But I knew I wanted to go into the coaching field.

Michael Taylor

Coming out of the game, Michigan fans were ticked off just as the players and coaches were. They were mad that 'they' lost. But then you have to go back and watch the game tape. And here is what the film showed.

Coming out of halftime, it felt like I couldn't go. Then once I told coach (Jon) Gruden I wanted to go, they still wouldn't let me go, ... I had to kind of stress the point, 'I'm going.'

Josh Williams

Coming out of halftime, Coach (Dana Addis of Copley) told us to play a little defense, and take good shots. I started to go to the hoop more, and that opened up the floor for my teammates.

They're a good team, but we wanted this win for Coach on the home court.

They're not going to go away. They're talented, extremely well coached and they're not going to quit. This time, we made the shots and free throws we needed in the fourth quarter. Last time, we didn't.

They have liked how it has turned out. We know those coaches and respect their opinions.

There's a lot of Iowans who have gone on to be good at the college coaching level. I want to be one of them.

There's a lot of interest from very qualified coaches, coaches who have had success at their programs. I was very surprised that it would create that kind of interest, and that quickly.

Jim Connors

There's a lot to be learned from the juniors and seniors, just keep working hard, even through the though times and you will be successful. I just realized recently that the coaches are created to make us better - remember that and respect them for it.

There's a lot of technique involved and the way (throws coach Dennis Kline) sets up our training, our distances go up and up as the season progresses.

The release form had to go to Coach (Mike) Carey and then he called my dad.

The relays are always super exciting. Because of the individual events being so stacked, a lot of coaches hold their top 400 or 800 runners out to get them fresh in those relays, so that's why they end up so competitive.

Phil Jackson

There's a process teams go through to put themselves in a competitive place. And when they get to that position, I felt like if they want me to coach that team, I'd have to listen to them, because of my connections in New York and my connections as a Knick.

There's an old saying, 'Defense wins championships' and there's a big question mark there. It's been there the whole season, it's been our Achilles' heel. We can talk about it all we want, coaches continue to harp on it, but it takes our defensive players on the field to stand up and do their job and it's as simple as that.

A.J. Hawk

There was a lot of pressure on everybody, but really no extra pressure. We just needed to relax and do what our coaches have taught us.