Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not real happy about not defending a league title this year,? said head coach Glenn Nuss.

There is no question that Jay has been a winner. It's a tough league to be a coach in and very few programs stay on top when they get there.

Until we have a coach, until we have a plan for next year, I'm not going to make any commitments. I'm in no rush, not until we get things straightened out upstairs.

People are going to say what they are going to say. Hopefully, we will keep playing hard and he will keep coaching and we'll continue to win. Hopefully, at the end of the season, nothing will be wrong and everybody will come back.

Penn State owned that Maryland-D.C. territory. Seven out of the top 10 players, Larry Johnson's got the state locked up. He's an ex-high school coach down there, so he had great inroads, great contacts.

Our kids need to understand how we have to play to be successful. They will feel good about what we have done recently and that is probably the most important thing, not how the coaches feel.

Our kids haven't learned to finish things that we start. I hope we learn this week. We used to pride ourselves. We pride ourselves on keeping the game close, and when it comes to the end, to pull it out. ... I can't remember the last time. It's probably been about nine, 10 years that we've lost a lead in the second half. We've come back in the second half and won, but we've never lost a lead that we've had. That's something we have to work on. That's nothing physically. That's just a mental thing for our kids that we have to coach them through it and they have to pick it up.

Our head coach resigned last week. ... I talked with Damon at length a couple times and he decided he wanted to take it on.

Our head coach decided we were going to do more territorial recruiting like football did,

Our guys played so hard. But give credit to Coach (Jim) Les and Lawrence Wright and Bradley. They made one more play than we did.

Our guys played hard. I love coaching in these kind of games where the players show the effort and the team never quits. The defense played incredible, they held tough.

Joe Ehrmann

Our job as coaches is to love you. Your job as players is to love each other.

Our job as coaches is to get them back down to earth. They have got to understand how important this South Dakota State game is to us.

Kevin Constantine

Over the last five years, every goalie Shane has coached has been in the top of his league, ... Shane deserves this opportunity, and the Silvertips organization wishes him the best.

Pacific has really impressed us. When Quincy Noble was there, they played what I thought was a pretty soft schedule. They would come into league with a glittering record and then not do so well. Coach Sprague has scheduled some really good teams, and they've fared very well, so I think Pacific looks like one of the most improved teams in the conference.

Pacific has a new coach this year and a young team. I'm sure they see this year as somewhat of a rebuilding year, but they play in the strongest conference in college women's water polo, so we are going to expect some good competition from them.

Our priority is to provide whatever support we can to his family, our student-athletes and coaching staff.

Terry Collins

Our scouts have done a tremendous job. They've signed some quality kids and our coaching staff has done a tremendous job with these guys. They've signed talented guys who are also tremendous young men.

Pat Summitt

Our team responded coming out of halftime. I never even imagined coaching 900 games and it is just wonderful.

Matt Moore

Our team really showed something. (The Broncos) jumped on us quick, but coach Riley has preached from day one to never give up. We showed a lot by coming back the way we did today.

Our team has probably been the most resilient team in the history of college basketball. They've competed every night -- the players and coaches deserve the credit for that.

Our team excels in the playoffs. A lot of it has to do with preparation; the coaches put in countless hours in on video. And then it comes down to detail and discipline.

Our strength is our leadership. The seniors and juniors have a lot of experience and have helped make the coaching transition easier than expected. They also know how to have fun, which makes practices run very smoothly.

Our focus is 100 percent on this season ... I hope he coaches for a long time.

Herb Kohl

Our goal is obviously to get to the playoffs, but I hope we'll be more than that. I hope we get to the playoffs with a good seed, and we can win a round, maybe two rounds. In my mind, we're not a team that will be satisfied to be 41-41 or 40-42. We can do better. I think the guys feel that way, and I know the coaches feel that way.

Our goal is to keep it moving and ride this as long as we can. One of the things Coach Hobbs keeps telling us is that as fast as we've gotten to where we are, we can fall out just as fast if we don't focus on getting better every day and moving forward.

Our first half was great. We did everything Coach wanted us to do. We had 28 deflections in the first half; we had 50 total in the game. Our pressure was going good for us in the first half. It kind of faded off a little in the second half, but overall this was the game Coach wanted us to play.

Our free throw shooting was horrible. Leave it up to a coach to find something wrong, but that's hard to figure out.

Overall, our coaching staff was pleased with our opener.

Overall, it's a top-50 class. What (Michigan State coach John L. Smith) needed to do is get some Band-Aids for his team and fill some needs right away. With eight guys coming in signed, I think he did that.

Steve Greene

Overall the coaching staff was pleased with the team performances, the girls are learning to race at a very high level. We had outstanding finishes in all the races tonight, and our spread time was outstanding.

Overall, I'm fairly pleased. We're overachieving in some spots, but we need to be better in other spots. As many coaches say, I'm pleased but not satisfied.

Our whole team and coaching staff talked (after the losses to Phoenix) about wanting to play our hardest and most intelligent game, and whatever happened after that, we could live with it,