Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

After last night, ... I'd be looking forward to coach any game. We gave away a real opportunity to win a game, and so the sooner we play, the better I feel.

Chris Johnson

After I got settled in a little bit, I started getting comfortable, ... Like coach always says, you let the mistakes go because if you hold on to them you're going to keep making mistakes. All I can do is look forward.

Chad Lewis

Andy's wanted Lance to come and coach with him since he's been in the NFL,

Ever since then, I tried to do everything I can and coach G has been working with me and teaching me a lot of new things. I've just been listening to everything he has been telling me and taking it all in and just keep trying to repeat everything he tells me and try to put it in my game to take it to the next level every day.

Enough. I am tired of the demonic dance (in the media over whether I will be offered a third term). I will not continue to coach the national team.

Greg Peterson

Each coach on our staff will visit between 90-100 schools during the next four weeks as well as various combines located in our recruiting areas.

Drury feels like a big family. I really like the coaches and I already know a lot of the players.

Earlier in the year, (Greenfield head) Coach (Rob Salter) gave me the role of being the dominator on the court and one of the leaders of the team. Being that, you can't ever lose your composure.

Erik has performed well for the Hurricanes and we are happy to have him signed, ... He led his team in Germany to the league championship last season and also performed well for coach Laviolette at the World Championships.

Evans plays defense well for a freshman and that comes from being well-coached. He's a coaches kid, so he should be good on defense. But all of their players play good defense.

Evaluations, off-season projects, we'll probably start on that next week sometime. Coach McCarthy gave us a timetable of starting next Monday at 1 o'clock - we'll be all football.

Especially for a half. I'm not a coach, but we still need to go out there, stay focused and keep doing what we've been doing. To take off two weeks and have to play a playoff game is going to be hard, so I foresee the starters playing maybe a half and then getting some of the young guys in.

A.J. Hawk

(Even) if I'd have won every award, it doesn't mean anything to these coaches (and) these players in the league.

During the spring and summer, that is when you compile your list of who you are going to be looking at come fall. You talk to coaches and find out whatever you can and by the time I come back in late spring, I will have whittled a list of 50 down to maybe 30 names. By the time we get to fall, each coach probably knows about 80 percent of the guys they are recruiting that year.

Five coaches in six years, there's been no stability here. I've got a point guard who's had a different head coach every year. There's some trust, but it's not as deeply established as a coach who's been here three years.

Jeff Long

Fans worried about this program serving as a steppingstone for coaches need not think that any more. This proves it's different than it used to be. I don't think it's a steppingstone anymore.

Every year there's been a rumor that coach Davis would not be here, and every year I'm back. I wanted it to be on my terms.

Every year, I've been pretty blessed, but I have not yet not enjoyed coaching these kids. I enjoy coming to practice and hanging out with them and coaching them and watching them grow.

There's probably not many coaches in the state who can say their team has not given up a regulation goal at this point. That's a long time in a soccer game.

There's pluses and minuses to it. It all depends on how well he can adapt. Obviously, the coaches he surrounds himself with will have a lot to do with it.

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).

Some people say that's pretty good for a head coach to come up with that one after starting 0-5. In all seriousness, these are the five that count now. If we can get two of these, we'll play another week. That's now our goal.

Sometimes my pitching coach (Gary Hines) and myself are on different pages. He was a pitcher, so he likes to let them work through a few more things than I probably do. She threw really well, especially after giving up some early runs.

Michael Robinson

Sometimes I tell coach take it easy. You're 79 years old.

(Rosetta) started the same year at the Tribune as I did coaching in 1964. ... Rosetta is the one that called me. He said, 'Ted, you will never guess what.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Finally, way, way, way overdue, you've been inducted into the Hall of Honor, and I get to escort you.' He was as tickled as I was.

Ron McBride is more like my father than a father-in-law, ... Pat would say the same thing. He has influenced my style of coaching more than any other person; the way he gets guys to play hard and cultivates good, long relationships.

Right now we're still trying to search for that win. It doesn't get any easier. ... It's all in our control. We're the ones playing. All the coaching staff can do is continue to create strategies and game plans for us to go out and execute. We have to play the game.

Right now we're preparing for every possibility. We really don't know what to expect. We're looking at a lot of different tapes, looking at different options. We're previewing what we think might be, but you never know what might be out there with a new coach in the first game of the season.

Right now we need each other more than anything in order to get into this tournament. We're not trying to get on you like coach does. We're just trying to get everybody on one page in order to get what we want. One person can't want something. The whole team has to want it.

Isiah Thomas

Right now we have a lack of scoring or a void at the small forward position. Coach (Larry Brown) has stressed to me this is a person he's had that he's coached before and he can help us right now. We can secure our present and secure our future as well.

Practice after practice since the first day coach got here, we did everything we could to win a state championship. Last year we fell short, and this year we made it our goal.

Preston started five games as a sophomore, so I don't expect him to be nervous. I know we've scrimmaged, but that is not a game. I was real pleased in our scrimmage that we actually did better when the coaches went to the sidelines.