Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anything can happen. These kids know each other so well, probably better than the coaches do. It's always a challenging game. You never know what can happen.

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Skip Bertman

As far as I'm concerned, John is going to be our coach for a long time.

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Charles Wang

As everyone in this room knows, Steve is one of the finest gentlemen you will ever meet in any walk of life. Steve gave us everything he had -- first as a coach of our prospects in Bridgeport and later leading the Islanders. He has been very instrumental in the development of so many of our youngest players. It is my hope that Steve will stay in the organization.

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

As a team they're coached very well, they play very well together, and we just have to be ready for them.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

As Coach has been stressing, our freshmen are only freshmen in name. They're very mature, smart people. It's actually been an easy transition playing with them.

Ron Turner

As coaches you have to be careful. If you talk too much about it, they get uptight and they play not to lose, not to make mistakes. You can't do that. They have to go out and play, yet you have to have focus. If you have that focus, usually you won't hurt yourself.

As coaches we took that Maryville game and used it as fuel for the rest of the year,

As a player, I knew that if I didn't perform I may not have a job the next day. All they did was play over films back and forth. You were being evaluated all the time. And the coaches were probably under even more pressure than the players.

Lauren Jackson

As a team, we want to win just for her. For someone to make a team want to win for their coach is a pretty powerful thing.

As a captain, I knew coming out of the locker room that I had to step up. Coach Taylor has a lot of confidence in us, and he told us to go out and play with confidence in ourselves.

As a blocker, coach Hueber even congratulated me, ... That's a big deal, a big step in life. I was pretty happy about that.

Michael Brown

As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?

Our conference is very strong. It's something that coaches around here, we've always known.

Amanda Smith

Our emotions were high and momentum was on our side. We wanted to win. This game was special for our coach (Tim Smith). We wanted to win this one for him at Germantown.

Of course we had to do it, it was our new coach and we didn't want to not do it. We just went through the motions because we all knew each other already. By the end everyone was laughing and telling jokes about everyone.

No question she's got skills, some coach has to recognize it. One of the things she does is make other players better.

North Caddo is in its first year, playing with seventeen freshmen. They're very young and their coach said he's just happy to be here right now, but still it's the playoffs and everybody is 0-0.

Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a great job in Headland.

After you've been here for four years, you sort of know what coach wants. That's pretty much what he's trying to get through to some of the players on the team - just play within the system and the system will work.

After significant evaluation, we feel that now is the time to make a coaching change.

The NABC is thrilled that the NCAA is taking a leadership role in the hurricane relief effort, ... We would expect that all other coaches associations would link arm-in-arm with the NCAA in a show of support as this very important effort moves forward.

A few weeks ago, a few moments ago, whatever, I had made my decision that I wasn't going to come back for another year of coaching at Idaho State. It's time for a new voice for this program, for a new direction, a new teaching of the game.

A few games it was difficult because he expects a lot out of me, but it was really great that he got to be my coach for my senior year and I will always remember that.

The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't get to see me, but he'll have a seat from above.

Bret Bielema

The one thing I knew as a head coach (was) I wanted to hire coaches that are good and eventually, as people know how good they are, people are going to want to try and hire them. Unfortunately, it was way too fast in this instance.

The old philosophy was kind of like, 'Let's start our own legacy,' whereas Coach Weis wants us to create our own legacy while honoring the past.