Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our coaches are just looking at who's a good team, ... Purdue's going to have a good year, but they don't have to play Michigan and Ohio State. How is that fair?

Jay Wright

Our coaches and our guys have a feel for that team. We know them and that should help us prepare for them. But, on the other hand, they know us too.

Our coaches always get us in situations where we can make plays. There always seems to be time for us to come back.

Road trips are pretty much the same. Coach keeps a tight rein on us. We never leave the hotel. Every game this whole year we've prepared for the same way as we have these tournament games. We watch film on every team, watch film at every meal and have a shoot-around. Coach does a good job. That's probably why he does it early on.

Robert Wood's penetration was key to the win, especially after Nelson fouled out. He would drive and dish outside. He really created a lot of offense for us. It was a very competitive match. They're a much improved team, with a good coach who's turning that program around.

Robert Morris is a smaller team and we could have used John, but I needed to make sure all my players know that is not how we do things here. The immediate impact might hurt us, but as a coach you have to think about the future and that is what I am doing. It will hurt, though.

Robert has started for us since the ninth grade. I have enjoyed coaching him and the time we spent together. I wish we could keep longer.

Rod's really one of the prime coaches I've ever had an opportunity to work with. He's excited about the game. He's passionate, tough, disciplined. The guy has no weakness. I thought he was a great football coach from the moment I met him.

Earl Campbell

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

Plays like that, we practice that a lot. Coach always talks about plays that take the life out of the other team. And that play right there, that's what it did.

Playing for Coach Wallace wasn't the easiest thing at first. I used to take his yelling personally and it would get me down. Now, I realize he's only trying to make me a better player. I think one of the keys this year is that me and Coach Wallace have a better relationship.

Peyton Manning

Players were surprised and upset emotionally about it. Everybody said a team prayer for coach Dungy and his family.

Will Poole

Players love the style of play we play here. Freshmen get an opportunity to come in and play. The coaching staff is just great -- they're jumping around, they're in your face. And you're in L.A. -- who wouldn't want to come to L.A.?

Mike Holmgren

Players and coaches who have gone through the game, that helps.

Players and coaches are always willing to help in any way possible.

Really, we're working on getting the Trojans better. We're not where we want to be. Our players, our coaches aren't satisfied with how things have been going.

Tony Dungy

Really, it seems like the minority coaches have to do more, for a longer period of time before they get the opportunity. That's the injustice that I see.

(Manning's) like having a coach on the field. Going in, we wanted him to make all his adjustments after the snap.

(Manning's) like having a coach on the field, ... Going in, we wanted him to make all his adjustments after the snap.

Man, this was big. It was emotion. It wasn't boasting. That's my role on my team. My team, my coaches put that confidence in me.

Man tends to see truth through his eyes only, be careful.

I'm happy being involved like I am, ... I have no hidden agendas. I'm coaching and doing what I love to do.

I'm hoping we can give them some problems. We know what they're going to do. It's probably the easiest week of coaching in that we already know what we're going to do from the jamboree.

I'm helping coach the offensive line at Lincoln North Star,

Me hitting that shot was more about confidence because my coaches and teammates have been getting up on me about shooting the ball. It just hyped us all up because I haven't been shooting at least from outside range and I've been driving a lot.

Roy Williams

I think this team has done something that every coach wants to do, and that is gotten better as the season has gone along. They've put the effort and the concentration in to make that happen.

We needed a win to pick our confidence level back up heading into the conference schedule. We got a lot of it back tonight. Our offensive line was opening holes that our coaches could run through.

Pat Gillick

I want to win, and whatever the manager and the pitching coach think it takes, we'll go in that direction.

I want to win 19 games. We have won 18 games two times before since I have been coach (seventh year). And I think if we win 19 we'll be in very good shape in the conference.

I was all nervous. I had to remind myself it was just like in practice. Follow through like coach said.

Alison Bales

I was a little frustrated. But Coach did a good job telling me not to worry about it. She told me just to focus and I'd have a good game. That really helped. The rest of the game I did exactly what she told me and it worked.

Vince Carter

I was able to get in the lane and make things happen. Coach (Lawrence Frank) did a good job of putting me in different positions to succeed.

John Chaney

I will not be here (tonight), but I have a coaching staff that will meet that challenge. I have no doubt about it. I just have to deal with a personal problem (today).