Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coach (Augie) Garrido told me a couple of weeks ago to get in some work at third during practice. I didn't know I would be playing there until I saw the lineup card.

Coach (Arnold) Gonzalez does a good job over there, and we work well together. He lets me know about potential players, and we try to take a look at as many of those guys as we can.

Ken Whisenhunt

Coach and I talked about that at the end of the preseason and he was concerned about where we were from passing game standpoint.

Solomon Jones

Coach always tells us we have to find a way. It's what we have to do, instead of thinking what we could do if we had this player or this player. Nobody expects us to win any games from here on out, so we just have to plan on a lot of upsets.

Coach always tells us to keep a cool head in a hot game.

Coach always tells us everybody wants to take the top dog down. I'm kind of surprised we're undefeated, but deep down we know we can handle anybody.

Coach always tells me to stay in front of my guy and work hard on defense, and that's what I've tried to do. It's great to play here and I love it here because of the atmosphere. The energy you feel when you walk into this gym is awesome, and you have to come ready to play because everyone is here to watch us.

Coach always taught us not to give up. When we were down by five, we were going to keep fighting. We knew we could come back.

Coach always says you have to keep fighting until the game is over, if you are up 20 or down 20. We have to play hard every minute we are on the court.

Coach always says to relish everything from your senior year. Going through everything we have, I'm sure I'll remember this more. It's the same feeling as when I was a freshman, but I'm sure I'll remember this more.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Coach always says, if someone is hot, keep going to him.

Coach always puts us in the same lane. We train together and we've become better friends. We always hang out. Even though he's a guy, I look up to him because he's a badass swimmer.

Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen.

Coach always does a great job of instilling confidence in me.

Coach Adams has a first-hand understanding of our football tradition and a wonderful vision for what is possible going forward. There have been a lot of positives within the football program over the past seven months and we are looking forward to seeing these play out as success on the field.

Coach Abell does a good job of making you play his pace. We knew coming in they'd try to make it half-court game.

Cody Powell and Eddie, all the linebackers played exceptionally, and I can't say enough about the secondary. (Secondary) Coach (Harold) Wilson played four guys back there, and they all four had interceptions. Replacing eight guys, yeah, they've done a super job.

Michael Taylor

Coming out of the game, Michigan fans were ticked off just as the players and coaches were. They were mad that 'they' lost. But then you have to go back and watch the game tape. And here is what the film showed.

Coming out of halftime, it felt like I couldn't go. Then once I told coach (Jon) Gruden I wanted to go, they still wouldn't let me go, ... I had to kind of stress the point, 'I'm going.'

Josh Williams

Coming out of halftime, Coach (Dana Addis of Copley) told us to play a little defense, and take good shots. I started to go to the hoop more, and that opened up the floor for my teammates.

Despite our mark on the road, I think we are playing better each game. I don't think the record shows the progress we have seen as coaches on the floor.

Casey Hampton

Denver kind of kept the same thing going. He's a good coach who teaches the right techniques, so you've got to kind of have good technique to do it.

A person who has an ego, isn't a team guy and doesn't have the priorities in his life in the right order, he can't make that decision. We honestly would coach for him and the kids. We're at a great school, absolutely. But he's what makes it special for us.

Any college quarterback is the coach on the field on game day, that's why he's there, and that's the faith I have in him. I thought, overall, even with the turnovers, he did a real, real good job leading our team.

Any coach will tell you that, typically, it's tough to come off a long trip and win that first game. It was really important to score at the end of the first period.

Any coach who has gone through some of what we've been through is not going to sleep. We fought (Wednesday), so I should be able to get some sleep.

Any coach that graduated 11 kids isn't going to tell you they are ready to win the whole thing. If they do, they are crazy. We had a ton of holes to fill. We lost a lot of good players. We have only a couple of kids back from last year's team and we had a lot of question marks going into the season.

Herman Edwards

And that's what every coach is kind of crossing his fingers on and saying, 'I hope it's not one of my guys.'

An old coach once told me that those guys up front have to play like a nickel and not five pennies.

Jay Bilas

Are they a good team? Yes, of course they are. But there are a lot of good teams. They are a good team, they are well coached and they are capable. But if you put their resume side by side with Michigan, there is no comparison.

Frank Robinson

Any time a coach has to take the full blame, he's the fall guy, ... He can't go up there and hit.

Marcus Ginyard

Any time a coach does that, you've got to know it's for one reason and one reason only. I think he sent a message.

Anything we can do for coach Davis to help him coach one more game, that's what we're going to do.