Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are excited to get home on our own turf. I think we are a lot more confident now, and our coaches keep reminding us that it's not where you start but where you finish.

Steven Jackson

The position coaches and Coach Fairchild, they've done a great job of stepping in and taking hold of what needs to be done on our side of the ball.

We are really happy to get a win and the week off really helped the kids prepare. The kids are improving with each game, and the coaches are very pleased with the performance.

Sean Payton

We are putting together a staff of dedicated coaches who know how to relate to players and are teachers.

We are playing better in all areas, offense, defense and I like our pitching too. Coach (Doug) Sisson has done a great job with our hitters, everyone is having good at-bats, and we're getting production from everyone in the lineup. Coach (Roger) Williams has done a fine job with our pitching staff. Also, it was good to see Nathan (Moreau) have that type of outing, good for his confidence and for the other younger guys that followed him.

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Joshua Johnson

The past two games the coaches were trying to see who was going to be their go-to guys.

Carmelo Anthony

The past two days, George (coach George Karl ) has been stressing that if the playoffs were today, this is who we'd play. We wanted to make a statement right away and tell them this is what they'll see if they play us.

Liang Chow

There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

We did some things wrong, but for the most part, they were doing what they were coached to do. They were executing today. We train to possess the ball, and that's probably 75 percent of our training sessions. It's something that we work on a lot, and it was pretty well done.

We didn't play real well in the third period, they kind of took it to us. It left a real sour taste in our mouth. The coaches and players were pretty unhappy and used that as something to kind of get us a little extra fired up.

Les Miles

We are going with two separate practices, one for the upper classmen and veterans and one for the younger guys. The schedule allows us to specialize and coach the younger guys individually much more. When the newcomers' practice comes in the afternoon, they will have already gone through the morning meeting.

Mark Williams

We didn't do a very good job. Coach gave us a pretty good talking to at halftime.

Bobby Bowden

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

Bobby Bowden

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

Steve Spurrier

We're not getting rid of anybody. We are readjusting the defensive coach and we are going to hire a defensive line coach.

Brandon Heath

We're not done. This was a big deal. It is a reward for every player and coach on this team, for all the hard work we have put into getting better as a program. But none of us is content.

We still have medal potential but we've lost two of them now. Anyway, we need to move on. I am confident in the coaching staff. We all need to be very calm.

Jimmy Walker

We still have high expectations here with Coach Weis. The environment was great today and this was a great game.

A.J. Burnett

We play scared. We manage scared. We coach scared.

We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only four 2-point field goals. It was a true team effort.

Antawn Jamison

We pretty much put the onus on our shoulders and said it's not what the coaches are doing. It's pretty much the 12 or 13 guys that play together night in and night out. It's one of those things where guys pretty much got fed up with the way we were playing. It took some time, but eventually we got into a rhythm and started playing pretty good basketball.

Tim Howard

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

Ashleigh Banfield

I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!

We have lost four in a row, but a lot of us had good practice this week. Coach has given us a lot of confidence and we should be playing some good tennis this weekend.

We did what we had to do. We were rolling kids in and out of there. Getting our defense healed up is going to be key this week. But I have confidence in our defensive coaches to get the job done.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

Jason Katims

In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.

When you're put in situations like that, they're kind of hard to come back from and we didn't do it. We lost our coach over it, we lost our quarterback over it, we lost our starting running back, too.

Cobi Jones

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

Jeff Long

Was I concerned? That's hard to say. I am human, and you hear things from different places. But at no time did I feel like he was going to coach somewhere else.