Famous Quotes & Sayings

She is a professional. She knows exactly what she is going to do and since she left her old coach she has had to work a lot more on her own and be more professional in how she warms herself up.

She is a powerful role model, a tremendous friend and a life coach to most of our members, young and old. She is a major influence on our teens exhibiting positive peer pressure.

Most players don't play for the coaches. If you are playing for coaches and their attention...you play to win and everything else falls in place.

Red Auerbach

Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, but he hasn't shown it. His teams have been ready-made.

Mike was a great guy and I know he'll be coaching somewhere else. Wherever he goes, I won't mind playing for Mike Sherman. He's just that great of a guy.

E. O. Wilson

Mike said 'I want to see you in your office' and he said 'I'm going to resign as head coach of the Bills. Of course, I was completely surprised at his statement. He seemed very firm about (it). He said he wants to move on.

Paul Holmgren

Mike is one of the outstanding young coaches in our game today. He's an excellent teacher of the game and has worked successfully with players at all levels of hockey.

Joe Glenn

Mike is a veteran coach, and he has been at it a long time. Mike also has a good support group. We have 120 years together on our coaching staff collectively. The right hand and left hand pretty much know what each other are doing. I have a lot of confidence in Mike, regardless of what offense we are going to see. Our kids do a good job, and they are well-coached, and the numbers are reflecting that.

Mike inherited a somewhat difficult situation with 21 games remaining in the 2003-04 season, but he did an outstanding job of steering us into the playoffs. We very much look forward to having Mike return for a full NHL season as the Blues' head coach and give him the opportunity to execute his overall vision for this team and a plan for success.

Buddy Ryan

Mr. Halas hired me to coach the defense. That's what I did.

Ryan Watson

We're looking forward to it. Tough players win tough games. That is what the coach says all of the time.

Dan Hawkins

We're highly underrated as a conference, I don't think there's any question about that, ... The variety is unbelievable. Coaching in our conference, you're going to see the spectrum, and that's part of what makes it fun.

Mike Holder

We regret the errors and took the necessary steps to notify the NCAA and correct the problem. None of our coaches did anything inappropriate.

We're gonna be in a lot of these types of games and (the team) knows it. The coaches know it and if we come up and get four or five ties this year, that means we're working hard.

Ben Howland

This program is where it is right now, as the greatest tradition in all of college basketball, the greatest history in all of college basketball. Eleven national championships. It all starts with Coach Wooden.

This program has been very successful and a new coach won't drive us. This program is more about the kids, about them playing the game.

Kent Hrbek

The only person who tells me what to do now is my wife. T.K. (manager Tom Kelly) can't tell me to bunt. The coaches can't tell me what to do. The only person I take orders from is my wife. She told me to cut the lawn today. So I cut the lawn.

Anthony Grant

We're playing in the last game. It's the thing that every coach wants when the season begins. And it's a very good feeling.

We're playing a very good fundamentally coached team. They play man-to-man defense and they run up and down the floor.

We really had a lot of talent (at Frederick). It was the youngest team in the league and the staff (including pitching coach Scott McGregor, the former Oriole) did an incredible job. They just kept improving.

We ran out of gas. We didn't have any legs. Jay County kept coming at us. Their coach did a nice job of subbing guys in and getting rest. They have a very deep team.

Billy Donovan

We didn't want to put David into the game, but we didn't have much of a choice. Anthony (associate coach Anthony Grant) was out of eligibility.

We've shared it with coaches at this point ... some of it is still negotiable. I think it's a misconception that it's set in stone and we're going with it. I was on the phone all day (Tuesday) with maneuvers that may happen.

We have six people who are trying to get into that relay and, if the girls don't toe the line, I am sure the coaches will have something to say. They want a cohesive team out there on the track.

When I walked into the party, Coach Shanahan said, 'Congratulations. We're happy to have you.' ... That really made it official to me.

Jessica Taylor

We usually go over what defense we're going to play and coach Washington told it's in our hearts. If we want this game, we'll get it.

Tom Seaver

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

Atul Gawande

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

David Neeleman

Those wedgie seats, whatever they call them, those recliners, they're just not competitive anymore. The difference between those and a coach seat isn't that great to be able to warrant charging the amount. You need a little more space for a lie-flat, but not that much more.

We were conscious of it, coach reminded us.

We were celebrating Rupp's Runts today, so Coach wanted to play like the Runts.

We need Coach back, he's our leader. There's definitely a difference when he's on the field. You can't fill those shoes. Five championships, 100-some wins. I hope I can be in that many games.

Jim Gibbons

When you combine the potential coaching opportunities out there and Pollard being decisive, I think that had a big part in it.