Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's the fastest player I've ever coached and will be the most recruited player. He not only can turn a corner, but he has great vision and just a general knack for the game.

Bryan Colangelo

He's the coach. He's under contract and he'll be the coach of this team next year.

He's just a hard-working blue-collar kid. He started the last eight games. He's not flashy, but he's got breakaway speed. He's the kind of kid coaches like.

He's just a hard-working blue-collar kid, ... He started the last eight games. He's not flashy, but he's got breakaway speed. He's the kind of kid coaches like.

Mark Cuban

How can the NBA coach with so many championship rings find me so intimidating? I really don't know.

He's our leader. He's our captain. We have his back, just like we have Coach Tice and our coaching staff's back.

He's our leader. He's our captain, ... We have his back, just like we have Coach Tice and our coaching staff's back.

He's our C team coach, and he's got more hair than all the other coaches put together.

He's probably the most underrated coach in college football. He's always thinking of new plays.

He's really more of a hyper coach and likes to get into it.

He's ready to run his own show. He's been exposed to all different types of coaches and nobody knows the game better than him. The thing that has made him a great recruiter all these years is that he's always true to his word. That's going to make him successful as a head coach, too.

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

I don't recall ever writing a guy a letter (before). I told him in that letter he was one of my top-five all-time coaches that I'd ever watched or observed.

I don't really think he knows what he's doing right now. He's a hardworking guy, you could see that in the offseason. Coach Cowher always talks about when your time comes to be ready, and that guy, he definitely seized his opportunity.

I don't really have a problem going back without a conclusion to the stipend issue. My concern really was the overall program. I wanted to make things better for the coaching fraternity.

I don't know if there's ever a good time to play coach (Lute) Olson's teams.

I don't know if Coach will let him shoot a a 3-pointer. I don't know.

I don't know if I've ever coached in a game with four turnovers.

Sylvia Hatchell

I don't know if it's the salt air, but I told Coach Roy that I had to put sunglasses on because of the diamonds on Roy's championship ring.

Billy Donovan

I'm fortunate to coach an unbelievable group of guys who have been totally selfless. They've been all about the team, and all about winning. ... I'm happy that I can be a part of the first-ever national championship.

I'm so proud of our defense, I'm so proud of our coaches and I'm so proud of our leadership, ... Our seniors stepped it up this week and everyone else followed along.

I'm saying things publicly that other coaches feel.

If Jay Smith isn't the coach here, then this university doesn't know what it is doing. This is a cyclical league, and he has the pieces in place to get back to the top. You can see it with how hard his kids play even when they are down.

If I was the opposing coach and they had a rookie long-snapper, I'd try to test him, try to isolate him, try to take his help a little farther away from him and see what he's made of,

I have no idea. Hey, I've only been coaching for 37 years, I haven't figured it out yet. You tell me. I don't have a clue.

I have no idea yet. It all depends on what the coach is going to do next year.

James Crawford

I had to get the induction process going for him; he never would have done it. He did so much for wrestling and for the coaching profession, I kept telling him he deserved this.

I had no hint it was coming. Coaches were part of the decision (to go to Miami), but Coach Coker's still there (and) still wants me.

I had no hesitation playing him in a key spot.

I had to look up and make sure I was in the right place last Friday. I've had Friday practices in the past where there were more coaches than athletes.

Chad Campbell

I had told him before, if this doesn't work out as a head coaching job, plan on me coming to help him. I guess we're rivals now.

I'm very shocked. I just feel sorry for him. I think he should be here. I have a lot of confidence in our coaching staff and they must have done it for a reason. But I don't know what that reason is.

In 2001, I was the pitching coach at Buffalo, and had to miss a game to come back to Minnesota for the 10-year reunion of that 1991 Twins team. I felt guilty being away from Buffalo, but Kirby was nice enough to sign 28 baseballs for me, to take back to all the players at Buffalo. Kirby was always a guy who was willing to give. He made people happy, and he's definitely going to be missed.