Famous Quotes & Sayings

As a coach it was my responsibility to give her whatever opportunity was out there. You have to go with your gut feeling. I knew when she had 58 points that there was something special going on.

As a coaching staff, we saw that this guy has just a much more natural swing left-handed. Now he's had some success, so I think we're going to keep him on the left side no matter who's pitching.

As a coaching staff we're trying to make sure (the gymnasts) feel confident in what they're doing. We reassure them that the gymnastics they're doing looks really good, and they're going to be ready.

As a coaching staff we're proud of the kids, seeing improvements out of the kids every time we wrestle.

As a coaching staff, I thought that our coaches did a great job of preparing. We debated about how we wanted to come out and we decided to come out aggressively. Getting out to that fast start really helped.

The kids played very hard. They could have folded, but that's what the Bobcat tradition is all about. We never gave up. I'm proud of the players, proud of the coaches and proud of the seven seniors that are on this team.

The kids played hard, that wasn't the problem. I just felt like I didn't do a good job coaching tonight. I guess that's why I'm so frustrated.

The kids played hard in a very good game and we really stepped up our shooting in the fourth quarter. Nathan (Mahomet head coach Nathan Seal) has put together a quality program over there so this is a big win for us.

Lou Holtz

With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.

With P-Willie being out, Coach O wanted me to try the position to see how it worked out, ... It (was) a lot of thinking and a lot of the mental part of the game.

You have to take what Coach Spurrier tells you to do and just go out there and do it. It's a lot of fun playing for him.

You had a lot of dinosaurs as far as coaches in the conference. New coaches have really invigorated the conference.

Daniel Briere

You have to give him credit. He's been known as a defensive coach pretty much his whole career.

You have to give coach Sherman and their seniors credit. A couple of their veterans stepped up when they had to and that's what you have to do in these kinds of games.

This year, he will lead, because a lot of these coaches and myself, there's no way we could know all (the rookies). There's no way. There's only so much we can do.

This year he is probably in the top 10 to 15 coaches in the country.

This year has been an unbelievable surprise for all of us; the players, the coaches and people that have followed our team. Now we are hot and playing very well. It is an interesting team because we have some core leaders and now late in the year a whole host of players are starting to be difference-makers.

This year has been a lot tougher than last year. This is probably one of the toughest coaching jobs I've ever had. You're getting everybody's No. 1; there's no hiding. Trying to repeat is the toughest thing.

When I was running in high school, it was more difficult to locate college coaches, hard for high school coaches to get your name out, so to speak,

Pete Carroll

What was I thinking? I was coming in after the coach of the decade.

What tremendous leaders those two are. On and off the court, the things they do are spectacular, and they don't get the limelight. It's easy to coach when you have players like that (whom) you don't have to worry about. They lead by example.

What Coach Reid does is just try and share his confidence, ... He says, 'Hey, we got it started. Let's keep it going.' That's where our sights are.

Charlie Jones

What they do such a good job of is coaching effort,

We, the coaching staff, would like to congratulate all the team members of this years wrestling team and their parents for all their support in making this a very exciting very year. Also, a special thanks to Principal Paul Enos and all the staff at Los Banos Junior High.

Guus Hiddink

We (the coaching staff) make the decision - I'd like to talk to my group of technical people and we make the in-principle decision,

Ken Hitchcock

We talked this summer, and the one thing I told him is you find out pretty quickly you have to put a lot of fingers in dikes. You spend a great deal of your time just fixing everyday problems. That's kind of what a coach is, a problem solver.

Wes Walz

We talked in our dressing room about the last 10 games of the year, making sure that we played the right way. Obviously the coaching staff and management are going to remember the last 10 games before they're going to remember the first 10 games, so we have a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride, contracts and different things.

We spent a lot of time relaxing by the pool. Coach really made sure we had a great time.

John Jay

Thursday's game was difficult for me as a coach to endure. Today's was not. I'm pleased today. We dug ourselves a huge hole, no doubt about it, but we found a rhythm.

Tony would run our coaches out of there to get back to their families when it was getting too late in the night.

Tony's got a whole mantle filled with basketballs. That's all you need to know about how good a coach the man is. He's outstanding.

Tony Lewis is the most underrated football player out there. Once college coaches find out about Tony, he'll get serious looks from colleges. He's a wonderful young man.

We've been slow coming out of the gate, so it was important to get off to a strong start like that. Credit has to be given to the entire team. Our defensive coaches put together a great game plan and the players executed it.