Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coach was talking to me about just playing good defense and rebounding. He told me I'm a better player than (I had played) and I have a lot more to give to this team. He said don't work on offense, that'll come. ... He just wanted me to go out there and play hard, not worrying about doing anything wrong.

Coach was saying to make sure that we play hard because he's going to get us in and out of there, and it's important for us to play hard because it gets the other big guys tired physically and mentally. So far its worked for us... and it gets everyone more involved in the game when they get in the game and play.

Marcus Thomas

Coach was saying that if we had six more people that was in with us then we would have come out with a victory. We have a couple people on the boat, but not everybody.

Coach was really mad because he felt like Utah and BYU worked harder and wanted to win more than us. We paid for that in some really tough practices. We took it to heart, and decided no one was going to outwork us tonight.

Coach wasn't very happy about it. I apologized to everybody. I had been wanting to do it all year, but I forgot the celebration rule. I learned my lesson.

Coach was not happy with us. He told us we just need to flush this (game) down the toilet and forget about it.

Coach was always keeping us upbeat, and a lot of those games come down to who is a better coach.

Coach was a great man obviously, a great coach, a very powerful coach. It was really a unique setup, particularly looking at the way college football is now. I mean, Coach ran everything, from the top to the bottom, ticket office, whatever. If there was a decision to be made about anything, he made it.

Coach warns us about penalties, he has referees out there every single day of practice and we're still getting penalties,

Allan Ray

Coach wants us to be aggressive, especially at times like that. He expects us to make plays.

Tom Brady

Coach wants to get other guys a look and at the same time it's nice to get a few days off from throwing. It's a long long season.

Amanda Smith

Coach wants me to focus more on staying down low. I have a tendency to drift out, but we need rebounds and it's my job to get them.

Coach wanted us to have a game like this, to get out and get after people at the defensive end. We did that in the first half, but we kind of slacked off in the second half.

Coach wanted us to go out and make sure we had a strong, strong defensive game. We tried to do that.

Chamique Holdsclaw

Coach wanted me to run the pick and roll and get to the basket.

Coach Walters got the job. They told us and everybody is excited.

Chris Tucker

Coach (Tyrone) Nix is always talking about how your position's on the line every scrimmage, so you want to come out there and prove yourself.

Coach (Tom) Osborne never preached at me, ... but when I walked away, I knew some things are right, and some things are wrong.

Coach told us we're going to win this game, but we're going to have to do it with confidence. We really just had that look in our eyes that we were not going to lose this game.

Coach told us to work on hitting line drives, and that's what we tried to do. This is a tough tournament and we don't want to lose.

Coach told us to take it one possession at a time, get some defensive rebounds, come down on offense and just run our set. We got some stops and were able to get easy baskets.

Coach told us to go out there and we need to start having fun and that's what I was doing. Everything I did out there, I just wanted to have fun.

Coach told us to go in there and play with some intensity.

Erlana Larkins

Coach told us to expect a physical game, but we weren't expecting it to be as physical as it was.

Justin Williams

Coach told us they were probably going to come out a little tentative and then get up in us, so we had to get after them right away.

Joe Crawford

Coach told us they were going to run that play. We just couldn't stop it.

Coach told us that we needed to get them in foul trouble so I just kept going at them strong.

Coach told us that we just needed to get a good night's sleep. That we had to keep the game and that other stuff out of our minds. I tried.

Coach told us that it's going to be a good game, so we're going to practice hard. We're not going to just go in like they're sorry, like they're the worst team.

Coach told us not to worry about our shots not falling. He wanted us to win this game on defense, and that's what we did.

Coach told us not to worry about being undefeated, the real thing is winning the championship. We're not happy until we reach the ultimate goal.

Coach told us he was most proud of one stretch where we scored just one point, but they scored zero points.

Coach told us he does a good job penetrating and shooting a floater. I just tried to stay in front of him and force him into the teeth of our defense. We did a good job getting him out of his rhythm.