Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew they were missing some physical presence tonight, and we wanted to take it to them a bit. Coach has been harping on that all year, but it's tough when you play 76 games to do it every night. It's something we need to do, especially here at home.

John Dunning

We know we'll have to raise our level of play. Russ (Penn State coach Rose) always has his team prepared. I have a lot of respect for them. If you lose to Penn State, it's not a loss to hang your head.

Ben Howland

Very easily, (Gonzaga coach) Mark Few could be sitting where I am now, no question.

When the team is getting better, it's tougher for a guy to make a team. And it's tougher for us coaches to make decisions. In the past, it was easy. You were just hoping to have enough guys good enough.

We've never had a coach for two seasons. We've heard all about the videos that Mr. Loughran watched to learn about soccer.

Kate Klise

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

We're continuing to move forward. The idea of the setback of time is not really an issue. I had a couple of other coaches in mind and I visited with them over the weekend.

Pete MacArthur

We're not doing anything special. We're just doing all the little things that coach talks to us about everyday in practice. We're just benefiting from it right now. We're just going to keep doing that.

Man, four state placers and the school's first top 10 finish. It's a head coach's dream come true and speaks to my great coaching staff.

Like coach said, we've done what we're supposed to do. Now we've got to take it up a level.

Like coach said, we're not playing well right now, but we're getting better and we're going to keep fighting. Football's a rough game. It's a tough game. Things don't always go your way. It's a test of manhood to see what kind of guys we have on this football team.

Like anything else, it's a lot of on-the-job training. The more experience you have, the more you see and the better you are at what you do. It's no different than if somebody was trying to coach in the Super Bowl.

Life is not fair. You're one game away from a championship one year, the next year they let him go somewhere else. His coaching didn't change. You never want to be where you've proved you can win but there are still questions.

Flip Saunders

Like I said, I think a coach is as good as the players he has. You do have to drive them. You've got to make sure to put them in the right situations. And we have a group that's very committed as far as what we're doing.

Mainly just the coaching staff. I didn't have to go far away. The coaches with experience know what they're doing.

Magnolia reminds me a lot of Deer Park. There are good, hard-working kids. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to coach them.

Making it here was awesome. Coach Harper is a great coach. He teaches us life lessons every day, and everyone in this group is going to succeed in life no matter what happens on the court. I'm just proud to be a part of it.

Maggie had an infectious personality that rubbed off on everyone. She was a great person, a great coach and a great leader.

Life coaching has received a lot of press recently; it seems you can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading a quote from a life coach.

John Hall

Let's just say I was Coach T's focal point, ... He told me later, 'yeah, you made one nice play. But you didn't do what I coached you to do. '

When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.

Tom Rath

It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.

Bobby Knight

A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

Brendon Burchard

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

Brad Gilbert

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

We are going to have to stop the run. Our coaches have stressed that all year. So we are just going to have to establish the line of scrimmage and stop the run.

This was a straight-forward, hard-nosed, blue-collar camp. This was like being in school. You studied, you got tested and then the teachers - the coaches - went over the results with you.

This was as good of a team effort as we've had in a long time. I'm very proud of them. This is not going to go down in history as an earth-shaking, dramatic top 10 win for Iowa State women's basketball, but I don't think you can tell the kids that and I don't think you can tell the coaches that. It was special.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

Eli Manning

As soon as you make mistakes, or you have an off year, even if it's not your fault as a quarterback... I've always said the quarterback and the head coach always get too much blame when you lose and too much credit when you win.

Whenever you're learning a hard jump, it's all about falling at first. My coach says that's how you learn. You can't not fall.

When you're 13-1 in the section, 18-2 overall, there's not much a coach can be unhappy about,

Rick Barnes

When I was at Providence, I'd feel like every day I was coaching to save my life. As you get older, hopefully you get smarter. I've learned that sometimes less is more.