Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Oliver

We're a young team, so it helps the learning curve. The majority of our games have been tight in the last 2 or 3 minutes of games. Coach does not have a lot of vets to throw out there, so guys are able to play. That's really helped our rookies excel.

Bobby Boswell

Through all of this, I have just tried to keep the big picture in mind -- that we're trying to win a championship and I'm part of that puzzle, ... The main thing for me is to develop as a player, and hopefully I can do it on the field. If Coach feels differently, I have to respect that and work hard and try to get back out there.

Through my coaching career, this is the most I've ever heard that I was an underdog. We ain't going down there just to play. We're going down to win. We'll see how it goes.

Marcel Desailly

Yes, I know. But I'm not the boss. The coach (Jacques Santini) is master of the ship. It's up to him to say.

We know about his background, and every once in a while he'll mention something about Florida or Oklahoma or the NFL. When you have a coach come in with that much experience and success, you automatically give him respect.

We knew (who) he was. We knew he was a shooter. Coach mentioned that, and once he fired them up, they were gone.

We knew we were playing a tournament team. Coach was saying, 'That's a Sweet 16 team you just beat.' He kept saying that. I never imagined we would see them in the NCAA tournament, and we would be in the same bracket.

We knew we were going to do that. The coaches talked about it. Now you (the media) know too.

We knew this postponement was of the utmost importance to ensure the safety of our student-athletics, coaches and administrators.

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.

Herman Edwards

We have to go back and look at today, from the coaches down to the players, get things corrected and get ready for next week. It's one game. You hate to lose a game, but at some point, if you lose it, you lose it. What we have to do is get our confidence back.

Mike Gundy

We have to find out what he can do if we give him lots of reps, ... That's where we as coaches have to make decisions and we go with them and go full speed ahead.

Will Allen

We have some depth in the secondary and the coaches preach to the backups to prepare like starters and I think you can see that on the field. When all of the guys, from the veterans to the rookies, are playing hard, it makes us a very difficult team to beat.

Whenever there's a coaching change, players always have a little apprehension about it. Lauren might have given me a little more credibility at first. But they are all my kids now.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

We wanted to win for coach on the home court. It was a long time coming for him.

The other thing you have to remember is that we have a lot of new coaching staff this year.

Florentino Perez

The person who coaches Real Madrid needs to be disciplined, rigorous and professional.

The perfect record is awesome, but it's not really that important. I'm looking past that. I want to go to the state tournament and get some hardware. My coach (Don Cooley) has really helped me out. I think he deserves some recognition.

Until a coach is hired, I don't think there's really anything those guys can do or would do. The new coach will have to decide if the recruit is the type of player that they want, and the player will have to decide if they want to play for the new coach.

We are pretty much on the same page on everything, ... She coaches third, I coach first, and we have been in the same programs since we were little and have had the same coaches. We know how important it is for the girls to have good coaches and a good experience, and we are making sure they get both.

We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now.

We started pressing in the second quarter and it forced some turnovers. Their coach made some good adjustments after halftime, which slowed the game down. There was no flow to the game.

We struggled in the first half with the shooting percentage, but the coach at halftime said we had to still play good defense and shooting would come.

We are a very talented team, and depth is taken into consideration with Coach on the way we play.

Rubin Carter

We still won't be great risk-takers. That is something that I am going to mandate for myself. We have to do a great job of evaluating potential recruits. It's also our role as coaches to motivate and let them know what they need to do to graduate.

Jay Williams

Wow. This is a great award. This one just tops them all. Coach Wooden represents everything I've always stood for -- pride, integrity and trust.

We're still getting better. Our defense was the difference tonight. Coach told us that Union County has some real tough teams, so we knew we had to be ready.

We're still erratic. It's somewhat to be expected -- we have a lot of coaching changes. We've tweaked some things, so we're still somewhat on a learning curve.

We've got five players who can go get it done, whatever combination coach puts out there. This is a damn good team.

When we first got to know Coach this past summer, we could tell that he was a nice guy and that we would have fun playing for him.

Avery Johnson

What a great young player. You turn over No. 6, and there's Tony's No. 9. But he's better, he's quicker, and just a terrific player. He and Timmy (Duncan) just make a great one-two punch. He plays the game the right way. He sticks to what he does very well, and I'm looking forward to coaching him on All-Star weekend.