Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Thibault

It is a great experience. The two teams I coached on the men's side were some of the most exciting moments in my coaching life. Obviously winning NBA Championships and CBA Championships and being in the WNBA Finals are all highlights. But playing and coaching for your country in a gold medal game is pretty intense.

It is a great accomplishment. It is an honor to know all the coaches think that highly of me.

It is a little harder now, because every coach knows about players, and there aren't many gems who get overlooked. But this game was a perfect opportunity to see what other players could do. It is nice to see these guys get rewarded with playing time.

It is a different focus from the team this time. Coach Meyer and the leaders of this team stress coming out to work and focusing on winning.

I think their coach made a good decision. The umpire went and talked to him and he was in complete agreement. Their players were saying their hamstrings were hurting from running in the grass and he didn't want to lose anybody.

I thought he did a good job in Phoenix. I thought at the time he was destined to be coaching in the league for a long time.

I thought Coach Wood would hang on another five or six years. He has a great program going there. I'm more surprised he's retiring than myself.

I thought coach made a good decision by putting Earl in. Earl is fast and there was no way they were putting a (power forward) on Earl.

I thought all 15 practices were exactly what I wanted to accomplish. Just knowing what's going on and being a lot more comfortable in the huddle is where I've improved the most. Me and coach Groh talked and just said you don't have to go out there and make up for three seasons in one season or one throw. I'm going to do whatever I can to help this team win.

I thought about my first year with Coach (John) Moro, the Elton (Brand) years, the first sectional championship. I went back through the whole career.

Danny Green

I thought about it a lot that night and probably the next day. But I've got to let it go. Coach (Roy Williams) said 'don't worry about it.' It wasn't your fault. Next time, I'll know.

Dan Hawkins

I though he was a good player. His JC (junior college) coach was going 'Hey I got a quarterback' and I said 'yeah I know, but we don't need a JC guy.' It's good he landed on his feet.

Dan Hawkins

I though he was a good player, ... His JC (junior college) coach was going 'Hey I got a quarterback' and I said 'yeah I know, but we don't need a JC guy.' It's good he landed on his feet.

Barry Alvarez

I think young players, in particular, see that, recognize, 'This is what the coaches want,' because we recognize that. This is what the game's all about, this is how you go about the game. This is how you're supposed to play.

Taylor Griffin

I think whoever we get is going to be a good coach just because of this program and the reputation it has. We just stick together and keep going through our off-season workouts and just trust the people who are in charge.

I think, when you don't score on the five-on-threes, from the coaching standpoint, you really feel haunted.

I think the coaches already have a pretty decent idea of what they're going to do, but there's always a couple decisions that they're not quite sure of heading into that last game, and the last game, the way it turns out, might swing it one way or the other.

Peter Budaj

It is great when the coaching staff and the organization has the faith in you that you can get the job done. What I'm doing right now is working hard, and playing good hockey.

It is great for the fans. Every game is tough and every game is intense. The supporters love it but the coaches get a headache.

Lamar is a very good team that can really score. Coach (Billy) Tubbs does a good job of getting his guys prepared. They have a guy (Alan Daniels) who is leading the league in scoring and can score in a lot of different ways. We will have to find a way to contain him to be successful.

I was ecstatic come draft night just to hear my name called. And now, after playing in the summer league and getting to know some of the guys and being able to play under the coaching staff and seeing the great things that are going on here in this organization, I'm even more excited to put my name on the dotted line.

Pat Riley

I was concerned about where we'd be, as I'm sure most coaches are coming back (from the All-Star break). We have one game in 10 days, and this was it. We started to play very well at the end of the (first) quarter.

I thought we did a great job defensively. We really made it difficult for UCF to get open looks. I've said that I've been coaching for 32 years and I've had some great defensive teams, but I've never had a team that was better defensively than this team.

Hidetoshi Nakata

Have you ever heard players saying I prefer 4-4-2 or 3-5-2? The decision is always made by the coach, so the players can't decide. Of course the players have to play how the coach tells them to. If you can't play that way then go back home.

Hats off to Taft, they played hard. They tried. They never gave up. The coaches at Taft are doing a nice job of keeping those kids squared away.

(Hays) is an All-American and he played like it today. He's a senior and comes from a coaching family ... we trust him and he trusts us.

Pat Haden

Having two weeks to prepare is a great advantage. I'm interested to see what Coach Weis has planned, particularly the first 15 offensive plays, which he scripts.

Having those fumbles in the last game was shocking, ... This isn't something the coaches are ignoring. Coach Mac was really going at it.

Hayden Fry

(Having a proven winner returning at quarterback) makes you feel very confident about your offense, ... But the thing that offsets that confidence is the fact that as a coach you're always scared to death that your number one quarterback, who is really outstanding, is going to become injured. Normally, the drop-off to number two is pretty big because they are so good that it's pretty hard for the number two to fill their shoes.

Dee Brown

Guys are a little confused, and coach is yelling all the time. It's going to be a grind. The Big Ten is a grind-out conference.

Having new coaches on the staff in the spring is not difficult. There are very few situations where we are not on the same page. We are all thinking the same way about 99 percent of the time.

Having him around is like having a library of knowledge. He's been coaching 25 years and in that time there probably isn't a defense or offense he hasn't seen or gone against. You just don't find guys like him, with that much knowledge, sitting around.

Allen Johnson

He's a great kid. He's been coached in football his whole life. His dad has been a Pop Warner coach for 30 years, so you know what you're going to get from him. I'm really impressed with how he played in this game.