Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Roethlisberger

Coach said if you go out there too early and get hurt, it negates the whole purpose of having the surgery. We're going to be smart about it. I'm not going to go out there if I can't protect myself, and put the team in jeopardy.

Patrick Patterson

Coach said he set these two games up back-to-back like this on purpose. We're trying to get our revenge.

Coach said for us to keep playing harder. We wanted to keep playing harder and wear them down. They looked exhausted in the last five minutes.

Coach said as long as I wasn't throwing crazy he'd leave me in. I know I was off early on, but I got better and felt stronger. It was my first start of the season, it was cold and I could never figure out the umpire's strike zone.

Mack Brown

Coach Royal and I have talked about this from the beginning. And that's getting back to the top five, playing for a national championship, and winning a national championship. Young people come to Texas and USC to play in these games.

Coach Roberts really worked on us all week to take it one game at a time, really focus on this game first, and now we're starting to focus on East Aurora.

Coach recruits guys who don't mind being pushed, being yelled at, who don't mind playing defense.

Coach really got on us about the second half.

Coach really didn't have to tell us anything, we just knew it was time to step up. As a team, we shouldn't need coach to tell us when to be intense. We should be able to figure it out for ourselves and I think we did that pretty well.

Coach Randolph was not happy with me because I wouldn't let him do what we do, and what we do is pressure. We just wanted to stay basic, naturally, because I'm sure there are people here watching us.

Coach put the confidence back in me and told me what he wanted me to do. When Coach wants you to go make plays, it makes it a lot better for you. I've got a lot more I'm not giving, so hopefully I can get it all out.

Tyson Chandler

Coach pretty much addressed us and told us we needed to step it up. We kind of took that to heart. A lot of it we've been getting in extra on our own. It's really been great.

Coach prepares us very well, and we knew everything they were going to throw at us.

Derek Fisher

Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emotion while playing the game.

Coach Pitts takes those guys who were former fullbacks and skill position players and gives them their own identity. We have a history of good defensive linemen here. Kids realize they can get in school somewhere if they give it a try.

Mike White

Coach Pittman is a good coach, and he'll be a good head coach wherever he goes. But we're happy to have him around a little longer.

Coach Phillips has done an incredible job with that program. He and I are good friends, and we're all the time trying to help each other out. I just hate it that we had to meet each other in this round.

Coach (Phil) Fulmer is a great coach, ... He knows his stuff, and the people he has around him are even better.

Coach Pete has been the man here for quite awhile, it's just that he hasn't been in the front seat. Now that he's in the front seat, he's going to do some magic around here.

Duane Brown

Coach Pearman is more humorous in his meetings, a little more laid-back. Coach Stinespring is a little more ... uhhh ... fiery. I've learned to take criticism a lot better since I've been (in Stinespring's meetings).

Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few leads he's lost in his coaching career. We're picking up on the coaches' mentality, and it's starting to become contagious around here.

Coach Pearl has had a tremendous influence on me. What they'll do is play nine guys, maybe 10. They will press full court. They'll pick up a variety of defenses, mostly full-court man. They'll make you play faster than what you want to play. We'll play that way every game and we'll play it every day in practice.

Coach (Paul) Hatcher said the streak had to end sometime. I just wish it wasn't tonight. But everything happens for a reason, just like we won 85 games in a row for a reason.

Michael Robinson

Coach Paterno is a great individual. I love that man. He's done so much for this university, so much for the game of football. I'm glad he went out there and proved everybody wrong.

Coach Palmer is what you could say was 'my guy,'

Coach Painter's been utilizing a lot of new drills that I like, some that I don't like, but I still gotta do them, they make you better.

Coach Nathan Lester did a great job of getting Zach (Overton) through in two sets.

Coach Mike deserves it. He's the hardest-working coach in college basketball, probably the world. He instilled in us that you should always do things the right way. He made us better people.

Coach Meyer said he going to play to what we do best. It's going to help us out in the long run. We're making the necessary corrections, and we're going to get better. We have all the confidence that we are going to be able to correct those details.

Coach Meyer. He's really getting into Eddie's head. I've never seen anything like it.

Coach Meyer has prepared us, but on Saturday he can only do so much. It's our show.

Gilbert Arenas

Coach mentioned it to us but we knew this wasn't going to be a blowout.

Coach McGowan, we can sit down and talk to him and say things that we think need to be done, and he'll listen to the players. Like if we say we think we should switch defenses, he'll switch defenses. If it works, we'll stay with it. If it doesn't, we'll go back to him.