Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicklas Lidstrom

He's got a great shot, and some nights, he's looking to make that extra pass. I think the coaches have talked to him about taking the shot and being there for rebounds, instead of him passing it up.

He's more of a half-court coach and he runs really good stuff. He's a tremendous defensive coach. I think he'll do a great job. He's a good person, and he's a hard worker.

He's more natural looking than the others with his footwork and they threw him in the fire and he did pretty well. And Coach (Pete) Carroll likes long, tall corners.

He's meant a lot to me. When you come to the bench, it's the way he gives you a high-five and smiles. It's nice to see your coach smiling.

He's incredibly dedicated. He spends hours preparing for an opposing team and prepares me as a player better than any coach I've ever had. He's always been very open about how I need to improve.

He's improved my game quite a bit. Especially doing the little things. I've never been around a coach like Wash, he's unique in the big leagues because he's still teaching. I'm going to take what I've learned from him wherever I go.

I couldn't be happier with the trade for Dawn Staley. She's another coach out there, and she has a lot of gas still left in the tank. I would think she's happy, too. Everybody gets tired of losing.

Allen Iverson

I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach to say that he thinks my conditioning isn't there, that was something new for me. Because nobody never told me that, nobody questioned my conditioning or injuries or anything like that.

I could just coach the matches and not worry about too much of the small, behind-the-scenes stuff. There were only a few small glitches with the computer, so in the grand scheme of things, a lot went right.

I can't compliment (diving coach) Carolyn Peterson enough with what she's done with our divers. She's really been working with our divers and it showed today.

Jeff Smith

I can't coach students on the finer points of law.

Larry Brown

I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.

I can coach football. My coaches can coach football,

I don't like long hair, and with coaching wrestling it was especially tough. Kids were always telling me to get it out of their faces.

Larry Brown

I don't look at it like I'm on them, I'm trying to teach them, ... When they do something right I try to tell them they do something right. When they do something wrong you try to coach them. This is the way I was taught and the way we've always done it.

I don't look any more forward than the time when we were injured. Your job as a coach is to maximize the abilities of what is on hand at any given time.

Jaromir Jagr

I don't like teams where the general manager or coaches are separated, ... Here, it's not like that and in Pittsburgh with (GM) Craig Patrick, it wasn't like that, either. Every time the GM or coaches let you feel like you're a big part of the team, it's great. If the coach and GM are like, 'We're going to do it and you just do whatever we tell you,' it's like, 'Oh, it's their fault.' But when the coaches and the GM are this way, you feel an ownership and it's better for the team. You give more.

Jerome Bettis

I do know that I would have loved to have been in there late in the game, ... Coach and I talked about all the situations that happened in the game and everything that was going on. But it's a conversation I'm going to keep and not talk about.

William Shakespeare

Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.

Carson had a lot of reasons to be emotionally down, but their coaches did a good job because they were ready to play.

Nick Saban

Before Scott joined the Dolphins, I considered him to be one of the most innovative offensive coaches in the league.

Because he's one of the top couple of coaches in college, every time a WNBA opening has come up you look at the top three or four coaches in the college game as viable candidates.

Byron is a great person to work with and I look forward to coaching him this season. On the field, he provides a very serious scoring threat every time he touches the ball.

Joe Smith

Hopefully I am going to wrestle in college. I have a couple of offers and I have had a couple of coaches talk to me, but I am going to wait until wrestling season is over to see how I will do in state before I make a decision.

Hopefully, he's the highest-paid coach out there. He deserves it.

Hopefully our point guard?s going to be OK. (Danville?s) coaches were telling them to foul, they had one to give. We never got the foul (call) on the play but the girl?s still laying here a half hour later. Maybe the refs should have seen that.

Nate Robinson

Honestly, Coach is great. He's like a father figure to me because he's so hard on me. Growing up, my dad was always on me. 'You've got to do this, you've got to do that.' But at the end of the day, I love my dad. I love him to death. I'd do anything for my dad. That's how it is with Coach.

Essence Carson

Honestly, I just hope I know by game time. You know how Coach always has tricks up her sleeve.

He's very gracious to a young coach, as far as even knowing who somebody like me is. I have nothing but the utmost respect for Coach Williams, not only for him as person but way he does it.

Jim Otto

He took 'characters' and handled them and made players out of them. He was on top of the offense and the defense. He could talk to the defensive coach while setting up the offense during a game. He was always involved in every aspect, including special teams. I've not seen intensity like it was when he was there since in the organization.

He told us to keep our heads up. He's a great guy. I know he'll be coaching somewhere, and I wouldn't mind playing for him.

He told me to wait because their coaching situation is not set yet. So they are going to come down in the spring.

He told me to put my shirt back on. I said, 'I'm sorry, Coach Mike.' ... Coach Mike's real big on character.