Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boomer Esiason

(The turnover) has more to do with the fluctuation of coaches than anything else. How can you have stability at quarterback if you can't figure out the coaching staff?

The visit went pretty good. I got to meet players and coaches and see how they were going to use me.

Mark Few

They are just not a 14 seed. They're somebody that you think you'd see at a seven, eight, nine somewhere in there. I don't have to use any coaching points. Our guys have seen it on tape. This is a darn good team.

They were penalties I could live with. Sometimes you go in strong and draw penalties. The ones that drive coaches crazy are the hooks from behind.

They were more ready than we were. It was a coaching mistake, not getting our kids ready. It won't happen again.

They were way down the list. The coaches don't like that, so they're going to have it in for me. That's why I've got to come and play.

They were way down the list. I know the coaches don't like that, so maybe they'll have it out for me.

They were two of the better ones for sure. They gained the respect of the other coaches in the league. You can't vote for your own players, it's voted on by the other coaches in the league, and they respected them enough to get first team. It's pretty tough to get on that team.

They were there the night after the incident, ... They were even there last night when police took photographs. The physical evidence just doesn't match with what coach Knight said.

Mark Harmon

They looked better than I thought they would after they lost their coach and as many players as they did. They still have some speed and they're big and physical up front.

Bob Thomason

They hit a lot of tough shots. You've got to give them credit for making the shots they had to. I don't know if I've ever coached a game where a team shot 70 percent in the second half and we still won.

There's still value in a performance evaluation, but I think you're really going to see a lot more 'in the moment' coaching going on.

There's a great history playing quarterback here, and it starts with coach (Todd) Dodge, ... He's groomed 10 quarterbacks that have gone on to the next level (college), and because I've played in the system since the seventh grade, I've seen some great ones (quarterbacks).

There's so many things as a coach that you see. The room for improvement is huge for us, and we'll come back and work on that.

There's going to be hard, hard decisions for our coaches and Ted and his staff.

There's no reason for that in the game. It's flat-out embarrassing. I don't coach that way, and I don't expect him to play that way.

There's no question that you always want to manage, ... I managed once, but right now, what I want to do is to coach for the New York Yankees.

There's no question that Thad is just what you want in a coach. He's done a marvelous job in the two years he's been here. I'm fortunate to work with lots of great coaches and Thad is one of the best. We want him to be a Buckeye forever.

Tom Osborne

There's no question I had a name recognition advantage, but as time went on people started to focus on the issues and not who was a football coach and who wasn't.

Steve Alford

There's no question I don't think it's a very good thing when coaches or players get booed by the home crowd. That's never something that's positive.

There's not a lick of 'I' in the kid. He's one of those guys that coaches just love, and wherever he goes, they'll find that out in a hurry.

Bill Snyder

There's no doubt there will be things that will be different from when we played them two years ago. We can run ourselves silly looking at Ohio State tape (when Mark Snyder coached there), this year's Marshall and looking at our game with them.

There's no doubt in my mind he's the coach of the year. Everybody picked us for 30th. What he's done with the team, the way he is, the way he's coached, he should win it by miles.

There's no fire-and-brimstone lecture (for tonight's game). It's a game we want to win because we want to win our 19th game, and we want to play in the postseason. Not because it's Rice. And that's no disrespect to Rice. I've never coached that way.

There's only a couple of coaches they really don't like. He's up there on the list.

John Baldwin

There's no way we're giving up. It's like our coach says, it's not if you're happy after the short. It's if you're happy after the long.

There's no way that I would have come back to coaching if I didn't want to win, because winning is a big part of my personality, regardless of what I do.

There's not much coaching other than substitutions and timeouts. It will be run and gun.

Jim Haslett

There's nothing you can do about it. You just try to take it day by day, and every day is different. I really am proud of how the players and their coaches have handled the situation. They go with the flow.

There's nothing harder and more unpredictable than high school state tournaments. I don't know if I've ever seen a team persevere better. I know I've never coached one, but I don't know if I've ever seen one.

There's no team in the country, anywhere, that a coach got their kids to play harder than Rod Barnes did.

Martin Biron

There's not a whole lot of coaches that can say they've got 300 wins. That's definitely a big honor, especially in a season like this year where it's a 100-point season. It's big. That's big all around.

There's not a real distraction. Like Coach Shanahan tells us -- handle it the day before, and the day of the game, we can just focus on the game. I think we did a good job last week, and I think it'll be the same this week.