Famous Quotes & Sayings

She's still part of this team and always will be. We listen to her. When she cusses us out, we get the message. When a coach yells at you, you never know; maybe he's thinking about his paycheck or his job. But she's one of us.

She's so much more than a coach to us.

She was adamant to play. There was no way this old coach could get a 24-year-old kid to look at the big picture.

She was a coach that just wanted to get into anything she could get into. She loves working with kids and coaching.

She told me she wanted to meet the real coach Shula.

She was a very bright, talented young coach and a wonderful person. We are all at a loss because she is not going to be with us here. But she left quite a legacy with that program and with the people's lives that she touched.

She was a pain in our (butt) all night. We were on her. I had a coach from their conference come up to me and said she's never played that good. She was on tonight.

She's the opposite of a coach potato. She spends her days hunting on a farm. She's already lived that life.

She's a very mature athlete. When I coached her she was one of the leaders on the team. She's encouraging and impacts the players around her. She'll never give up. That's what you need out of a defensive player.

She's just a tremendous inspiration for me as a coach and I use her as well as many other former players here to inspire my team. I say whatever you want to do, you can do it.

She's just an outstanding coach and not just from the Xs and Os. She understands the players. She's dedicated herself to her school and team. Before she hangs up the whistle, there will be many more wins.

She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program.

Linda Jones

She's been here the last two years. For some of the seniors who played as freshmen, this would be their fourth coach in four years.

She's going to be a good coach someday. I just hope she doesn't take my job.

She's exactly what a coach is looking for in a player, and exactly what a teammate is looking for.

She's our leading scorer. Game in and game out she has done her job. We always knew she could score but her defense has improved since preseason. She's very coach able.

She's one of those kids that will always be in my heart. She is one of those players that made me as a coach want to come to practice every day and give her my very best. I told her, by the time the season was over, I was totally exhausted because I felt she had, in a good way, sucked everything out that I could give her as a person and as a player.

She's one in a million. I've coached her three years, and there's nothing she can't do.

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.

We are getting better ever game. The other coaches are telling us that, the umpires are telling us that, that we're coming around and we truly are.

What's said between Coach and I, it's between us,

We're going to meet Friday, I'm going to sleep on it, and make a decision on Saturday. Coach (Sampson) seems like a good dude, and he's a proven winner, but at the end of the day it's going to come down to whether I feel comfortable with he and his coaching staff.

We're going to have some college coaches coming out. Sylvia has gotten some offers.

We're just very, very, very pleased. To have your leader back in place is wonderful. He's like our father. We respect him that way. We respect him as a man and as a coach and a father figure. We know that he's all of the above.

Usually, it's the quality of the players which decides the match, not having the coach telling you whether it's the right moment to take on the defender or not.

Usually at the end of the season there's a league meeting where coaches meet to plea (a) players' case. But I couldn't make that meeting and the other coaches named Julia to the team because they recognized her talent.

We're more organized this year. Last year we didn't know who was the head coach until the last minute. This year we've had more time to prepare. I hope all the runners have a lot more fundamentals and more training. I hope they're more efficient runners this year.

John Cairns

With Nick jumping in there, they don't need me back as bad, ... As soon as coach found out I was going to be out for SEMO, he said 'We might as well just get you for conference.'

We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. Like Coach says, 'bring all that you got.' Hopefully we're going to be good.

Rod Marinelli

We're going to coach this guy real hard. Off of film, you can see all the upside to him -- tremendous upside.

Brian Billick

We're going to be very supportive of Jim's looking and hopefully being able to procure a head coaching job. I think Jim would be outstanding. If indeed that doesn't happen, Jim will be back next year. Some of the speculation I've seen is just that, because Jim and I have already had discussions about some of the things we need to do.

We're excited. We really liked it last year, it was beautiful. It's a home game in a way, but it isn't in another way. The coaching staff is approaching it as it is a home game, and we don't have to travel.