Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is everything almost. The first two-timer ever at the school. A great feeling because I know the coaches have been wanting one. I'm happy for them and me.

This is how you're supposed to play. We should have been playing like this a long time ago. It took a lot - had to lose a couple games in a row - but Coach (Sean Miller) finally got through to us that we have to play hard.

This is a tremendous honor to be here. I really loved everything Coach Landry stood for.

This is a tremendous honor and thrill for me to be named the head coach at West Point. Maggie Dixon and I, and the staff, started something very special back in October. I embrace the opportunity to continue what we started and look forward to continued success in the years to come with this group of players.

This is a team that I don't know a whole lot about, but I do know they have a good coach who gets his squad ready to play. They are definitely an up-and-coming team to keep an eye out for in the future.

Rubin Carter

This is a storied program. You look at the history, you look at the players who played here, the players who coached here. There's a lot of history here, and there's a lot of pride for this university. One of the reasons I wanted to be here was because of the alumni.

This is as rare as you can possibly get when it comes to perfect games, to do it as a staff and with so few strikeouts. I've never coached a perfect game or been a part of one.

Bill Cowher

This is a special group of players, these guys are so deserving - I couldn't be more happy for Mr. Rooney, the players, the coaches and the city.

Jerry Colangelo

This is the first standing USA Men's Senior National Team and the 23 players selected will give us everything we need to form a great USA team. We feel we have versatility, shooters, size, quickness, role players and defensive stoppers. In making the player selections we took into consideration the style of play anticipated to be used by the coaching staff.

This is the first one for me as a coach and it never happened when I was playing. I'm pleased to see it.

This is not a year that we should take a mulligan on from blame, from the coaching perspective, from the team-building perspective. This is not a year of injuries. It's a year where we could have, despite the injuries, still been in the playoff hunt.

Larry Brown

This is not an individual sport. Everywhere I went it's about team. I've been coaching the same way my whole life. I never had a problem getting people to understand.

This is now, this is a new team, a new coaching staff. We're going to be ready to play, I'll tell you that." ()

Katherine Paterson

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

He always wanted to coach. He would come in my office and say, 'Let's talk coaching.' I would say, 'Well, it is kind of hard to divorce myself of the situation since you are one of my players. So we're not going to talk long.'?

He called one of the coaches to let him know.

(Head coach Dennis) Murphy got on me at halftime and I took that as a challenge. I went out with more intensity in the second half.

Heather is one of the up-and-coming coaches in our profession. I loved her competitiveness as a player and am excited to have her on the Utah volleyball staff.

Chan Gailey

He also said coaches coach, and administrators administrate.

Greg Schiano

He really has a great demeanor about him. I can't tell you what's going on inside but to all the players and coaches he sure is a cool customer. Sometimes in life if that's how you appear, even if you're not, it makes everybody else comfortable.

Ben Howland

Herb is a great coach. He's so smart and intelligent. Our league is a great league. It's getting tougher and tougher. Herb just made it tougher.

Rick Barnes

Herb hasn't been appreciated the way he should be appreciated. He deserves more than the way he's been treated. He has poured everything he has into the job. I don't think they could find a better coach for their program.

He probably transported more kids home than any two coaches in the entire state of South Carolina. They would get to some of the major Saturday meets a little later because Y.C. was going around picking his kids up.

Granted, we're 0-2 (this season), so it looks like the same old Newton, but it's not, ... With the youth and the coaching staff, it's a totally different attitude.

Billy Gillispie

Got a good whipping tonight. They played harder than us. They played much, much, much smarter than us. ... They executed, played with discipline, they played hard, they got to the basket, they did what they were coached to do. They have good players, and I can see why they are getting better in a hurry.

For the most part, coaches have the same philosophy, they are there for the kids. I've made a lot of great relationships with coaches. It's a working relationship for all of us.

For the Dutch people it was a mistake for the coach and that's why the jeering was so loud. I think you could say it was justified.

Tony Gwynn

For the coaching staff, when we pulled in and saw the ballpark, man, memories just start.

For the coach, I'm sure it's nice to coach when there's a lot less egos on the field.

For some people, the grass is always greener somewhere else. In my mind, there's not a better place to coach than Victoria.

For somebody to say it's not a big deal, I think they'd be lying. This is like a once-in-a-lifetime deal, and it's not going to happen for another century. We won't be alive, because you have to coach a long time to do what these guys have done.

Franco Harris

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

If it happens, it happens, ... I'll be proud of it, but I haven't mentioned it. I've been around a lot of years. ... I'll be proud of it, but I've had a lot of great coaches and great ballplayers. It'll be nice, but it's not something I dream about.