Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

You haven't taught until they've learned.

The high school coaches have been working with the kids for the last few weeks, which has really helped. Everyone's been really supportive and encouraging. It's great.

The guy is relentless when it comes to his work ethic. He's the first person in the parking lot in the morning, and sometimes the last one out. That level of dedication for what coaches get paid is remarkable.

Nancy Lieberman

The greatest thing for her to do is to be invited to a combine where coaches and GMs will be able to see her.

Jake Delhomme

The great thing our coaches do, we put him in different formations. We kind of motion him around, we try to create opportunities for him. A lot of teams have rolled to him and taken two guys to cover him. When you can take two guys out with one, you need to be able to run the football.

A head coach position in the AFL is the next logical step up. But a coordinator position in the right situation could be a positive.

A head coach position in the AFL is the next logical step up, ... But a coordinator position in the right situation could be a positive.

A guy who knows the pulse of a team. A guy who knows what's going on, when to back off and when to push harder. Coach Singletary has all those skills, unmatched.

DeAngelo Williams

You want to know the truth about that play? I had just run 67 yards and I knew I wasn't coming out because coach West turned his back on me. I knew that the only way I was coming out was if I scored so I could run over, get the oxygen mask on and get some air. That's what I was thinking about.

Tony Amonte

You win a Stanley Cup, you want to be a part of it and I probably wouldn't have been that big a part of it if I stayed there. I wasn't playing that much and didn't really know how to deal with a coach like that (Mike Keenan) at the time, being 23 years old.

You've got to put a coaching staff together that's responsible and can do things for you, because you can't do it yourself. And then you've also got to have talented kids, which we do. So we've got the combination that you need to get here. It's not me, it's not one person.

You've got to go right there. It take a perfect throw and it was still bang-bang. You've got to get credit to the kid. Sometimes, when you're not hitting it too well, as a coach you want to try to make things happen.

You've got to give it to BU. They have a great coach and a great team. But we got a win, and now we've got to get over it.

You've got to give credit to the coaches and the staff.

You've got a lot of good coaches on this staff. Ted Cottrell did a great job this year. I think he'd be a great head coach. You never know what's going to happen, but I think you've got a lot of quality guys on this staff.

You turned on the film and you just got sick from the lack of effort. You had some guys here that couldn't be coached last year, and they're not here now.

And it just so happens that I was put into the position of interim head coach, and everybody knows about it.

All we can do coaching wise is tell them to take (a pitch) so we don't give them easy outs.

Bo Ryan

All three played in pretty good (high school) programs, and that always helps coming into a college situation. But being the first practice, it's still too early to get a read on the freshmen. They're attentive, they're hungry, they have good instincts, they've had good coaching and hopefully they'll continue to stay hungry and continue to get good coaching.

All they're doing is saying something that happened. It's not like they're threatening me. I can take that. I hear Coach every day.

All the ups and downs, coach always kept our heads up, and we played together as a family.

Andy Pettitte

All you can say is, if a guy is tipping pitches, you just hope he and the pitching coach can work on it, look at some video or whatever, and see it, ... before you screw up in a World Series.

All year my coaches have been telling me to take the jump shot and I haven't been taking it. We were down so I thought I would take it and it feel for me.

A lot has been said and written about Mourinho. I don't know him personally but as a coach I think he has to be regarded as brilliant.

The girls doing their job made our coaching decision a good one tonight.

Andrew Luck

I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.

Andrew Luck

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

Richard Carson

The kids did a great job at halftime. They didn't panic. They listened to the coaches who did a great job making the adjustments. We're going to learn from this one. We're going to learn from the one next week and hopefully get a victory.

The kids are fired up for the season. The coaches can feel it.

The kid is a very good shooter, as good as I've recruited since I've been a coach here. He's gonna miss some shots but you have to go with him.

Roy Clark

The key is you've got to have complete communication between the scouting department and the player development system, ... There's a game plan for each and every person who comes into our system. We talk about the players and what we would like them to do, then communicate that to all the instructors, managers and coaches so everybody is on the same page.

The key is to slow it down and not get in such a hurry. (The season opener) will be here quick, but the key for us coaches is to slow it down and have a process daily of what we want to get accomplished.

Their big men started getting tired. Our coach put our small lineup in and we just kept pushing it up the court. That led to easier baskets.