Famous Quotes & Sayings

My dad took me to see him play when he was a high school player at Louisville. He could have been the coach of the year at Cincinnati, with the obstacles he went up against.

Matthew Stafford

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

Montgomery always plays a good game when we come over here. Coach Fitch always does a good job with the girls. We are 1-0 right now in 2006, 2-2 for the district and I am excited about that.

My family, coaches and I are discussing it, but no decisions have been made yet.

Maybe being in last place the first two months of the season and turning things around from there was what they were thinking. Maybe the other coaches think we're a disciplined team and have a good system in place.

Maybe at the professional level, it's the salary thing or money or whatever. They make more than the coaches, so maybe they feel they're higher than the coach. But right now, I've been taught to respect my coach and do whatever he tells me.

Now we'll see how good a coach I really am.

Now that right there was tough on him, I know, because first year as a head coach and you have a death right there and everybody witnessing it. You just don't know how a team is going to react. I'm pretty sure he was wondering if he was going to lose us, you know guys heading off to a different world. But he kept us together, man, he kept us on one focus and that's winning. And he didn't downgrade the fact Thomas' memory was there. He always pumped that up.

Nederland is always such a sound and solid football team. Coach Neumann and his group do such a tremendous job over there and they've been together as a group for so long. I think they've been to the playoffs 10 straight years or so. They always have some good-looking kids. They look the same as they did in 1981. They have big kids that work hard year around. They look like they're just cut from a different mold. They just seem to reload every year with the tremendous depth they have. Another key to their success is that they don't turn over the football. They've won a lot of games over the years doing that.

Obviously, it's a big job and I think he's doing a fine job. ... It's a big job coaching two at the same time, even though he's got good assistants..

Obviously, I'm a very happy coach tonight. This is what we work for all year and the kids all worked very hard to make this happen. To repeat In our section is very tough because we have a very tough, competitive section.

Rich Rodriguez

Obviously, the ultimate goal is to win the national championship. I think any coach of a program at this level would say that.

Chuck D.

Obviously, their coach told them at halftime not to let me get to the post. It was hard to get it in there.

Obviously, I've always wanted to teach (my athletes). Not to be police officers, but better athletes; but now, yes, I guess now I'm going to be a coach for the police department.

Aaron Gray

Obviously, it was a big concern. For the juniors, the people who only have one year left, it's sometimes hard to get a new coach and have a new system.

Obviously, he made a heck of a play. But all I know is when we got to the sidelines the coaches were saying we have to tackle better. That's two weeks in a row that big plays and missed tackles have cost us.

Obviously, coach Willard has a great pedigree. He's done a very nice job. He's been involved with some different head coaching opportunities. He's someone I will definitely, definitely look at. But he's just one of several that I look forward to researching and visiting with.

Obviously, all the credit goes to coach Stokes and the guys at ECU. I thought they played a hard-fought, very spirited game. Played exceptionally well.

Obviously all of us in the organization are concerned about the fact that the offense has not been able to be as productive as we anticipated it would be. But Steve and the coaches will go to work on that. It's their job, it's their responsibility, and they'll do it. They just have to figure it out. But when you're playing a high-powered offensive team like the Rams, obviously you go into that game feeling like you have to score some points.

No coach wanted to cut any games. We all just want to play.

No coach is perfect. You can't please everybody.

Nobody wants the pack to separate too much and I'm sure that's what coach Nelson is emphasizing. They've got an opportunity to get a game back.

Noelle without a doubt stepped up to the plate and threw down today. The coaching staff could not have been more excited for her to have such a great result as she continues to improve each week. We just ran into a very strong European field.

No doubt our most improved wrestler. Kids like him make us coaches look really good.

Nobody gives us a chance, but the kids and the coaching staff believe.

Getting to the state tournament was what we were working for. Our goal was never the streak; it was to win the state championship. Playing those teams definitely made us better, and that's why coach (Bob Vaughan) scheduled those games.

Getting that first win always feels good. I'm happy for our kids and our coaching staff.

Getting all the important pieces in place was something we wanted to do right away. We wanted to give our coaching staff an entire off-season to work together toward next year.

Girls don't have many role models because there are so few of us in coaching, ... I see myself as a role model because I've gone through the things these girls have gone through. Maybe I can help them through situations that another coach can't.

Andrew Ference

Getting Dion this year made up for losing a lot of other people. Of course he has a learning curve, but he doesn't have big holes in his game. He just has tiny details he has to work out, and the coaches love working with a guy with that much talent.

Free throws were huge. Our coaches work us hard at the line.

David Allen

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher, motivator, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

Roy Williams

Fourteen years ago I thought it was neat to win this award, and now I'm so much more appreciative of it. From the first day of practice this team was fun to coach yet they were focused on what they had to do.