Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have coaches who will yell at us and another coach who will calmly tell us what to do. Different guys respond to different things.... It's a good mix.

Matt Mays

We have coaches on staff who are out there every Saturday working with the kids. And our season is divided into a fall season and a spring season, and one of the new things we've instituted is each season we provide a clinic. It provides a lot of one-on-one coaching time.

Mack Brown

Usually the coach of the year is the guy that overcame something. We didn't overcome anything. We just won a big game at the end and we hadn't been doing that. For Joe to do what he's done over the last few years and turn his program completely around is really, really special. I don't think there's any question he's deserving of this award.

Brady Quinn

With the guys we have coming back and obviously our coaching staff and kind of the foundation we've laid last year for ourselves, our goal is to do it big, win every one.

We're really pulling together as a team and playing hard. We're doing it for coach, but he's not the only one we're doing it for - we're doing it for the fans.

We do it as a courtesy to the coaching staff,

Tony Dungy

Those guys deserve everything they get. You couldn't coach two players that you would want this to happen for more.

Tony Dungy

Those guys deserve everything they get. They have been in the same system for more than seven years now and that part has really helped them. But they work at it and they're very professional all the way around. You couldn't coach two players that you could want this to happen more. They deserve every accolade because they're professionals on and off the field.

Whichever team drafts me, I think I can make a significant (contribution) on their team, no matter who it is. Being at the University of Miami with the coaching staff we have and the history of guys who come back, I've learned a lot and I've been taught a lot and I think with the right opportunity and the right team, I'll be able to play.

Without a doubt, that's one of the most frustrating losses I've ever been involved with as a coach. We just didn't show up, and we wasted a strong effort by Derek. We didn't compete at the plate.

Kris Draper

We have to play to these new rules, but we play to the system implemented by the coaches. Hopefully for the sake of the game, the coaches want to open it up.

Dwight Yorke

We have to play the same way. Same attitude, same good spirit. Once everyone is fit, it must be hard for the coach to pick the team.

You always think of the players and coaches and everybody that's been involved. It's going to go down as a Jim Hoover record, but it's really a Walton football-program record ? and I think that means more than an individual record.

Yesterday was a rough game for me. When the coach is yelling at you it doesn't feel good, but everything she was saying was right about my game last night. I wasn't crashing the glass and I wasn't helping my team out. So today I wanted to do all those things.

We don't want to lose to anybody, but we didn't come out with the right intensity and coach gave us a talking to at halftime.

We encourage them (student athletes) to play other sports as long as they are lifting for football. The kids need to be well-rounded and to be coached by different coaches.

We really try and play hard for coach Dungy. Everyone loves him.

We really recognize how well they're playing the game defensively. They have some very good players at linebacker. They don't do a lot of things, but are very well coached on the defensive side of the ball.

Jimmy Rollins

We played this season to get to the playoffs and give ourselves a championship and we're not going to be able to do that. But I think we have a good makeup and a good formula at the top starting with the manager and the coaching staff.

We played this game in his memory. He promised the coaching staff that he would get us back here as a senior. This game was really in memory and tribute to him.

We played really well. It's just the turnovers and little mistakes are killing us. That's consistently happening every game. Until we eliminate that, like coach Benson said, nothing is going to quite work out.

Larry Brown

When you're losing game after game after game it's tough. It's hard to keep them up. It's hard to get guys to keep competing. It's really tough on the young kids. But you can't stop coaching and trying to get better. You hope you have something positive to talk about.

Braylon Edwards

When you're the third player (drafted) overall, you have to make plays like that. It was great to have my family, coaches and friends here.

We have a lot of good things going. We have good shooters. We have to listen to the coaching staff to get better and we have four good freshmen coming in. Next year is going to be better. Next year is going to be fun. Hopefully, we won't have that many injuries.

Jim Morris

We hate to lose Coach Jungers. I understood when we hired him that some day we would lose him to a head coaching job. We know he will do a great job in the future.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We had lot of players leave, lots of new players come and a new coach -- it's a team that has to find itself.

Jon Gruden

We had lot of peaks and valleys. We've been fairly consistent. It's a credit to our coaches and the football team to step it up. We're in a prime position that a lot of people didn't think we would be in.

Carlos Ruiz

We had less than a week to get a team together. We don't even have a head coach yet.

We had high hopes going into that year, we really did. We had a coach who had won the Super Bowl. But they forgot he would need a little talent.

We had hard practices. Coach made us get the stuff done right.

Levi Jones

We had guys like John Jackson and Richmond Webb coach things like professionalism. As far as technique and what Paul wants done, Willie is the guy for the tackles. He can put it into a player's perspective. He knows exactly what Paul wants, and then he can tell you exactly what's going to happen in a game.

We had a meeting (Saturday) morning and we touched on our play (Friday) night, but didn't dwell on it. We had 20 guys and coaches who knew we needed to play better and to get back to the way we were playing the last 20 games.

Michael W. Smith

I wasn't the most gifted field player. Coach tried me in goal, I did all right, so he kept me back there.