Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coach Shea thought the zone would work, so we tried it and had good results. The tempo of the game slowed down and that threw them for a loop.

Jonathan Vilma

Coach Shannon, he popped in the tape and was like, 'Just watch him. Watch how he plays,' ... Coach was like, 'You could be just like him.'

Marcus Thornton

Coach (Scott Schumacher) told me I could shoot anytime. I just had to get into a rhythm. We knew we had to play harder. We wanted to let the whole league know we're for real.

Coach says you never know when it?s going to be your time. This game I was hitting.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Coach says this is winning time. We're not just trying to get in the tournament. We're trying to win every game till the end of March.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

Darrick Martin

Coach (Sam Mitchell) made adjustments and we executed well. It's a matter of us playing how we know how to play.

Coach salaries or stipends would vary tremendously, from no stipend to $7,000 or $8,000. Probably $9,000 would be the highest I have heard of.

Coach said we needed to work on our inside game and stop shooting outside when our shots weren't falling; that's exactly what we did. We just needed to slow things down and let things come to us.

Coach said we had to get back to playing inside-out and playing De La Salle basketball. We knew we had to step up and put the pressure on.

Coach said to throw it as hard as I could, ... I didn't even see it, I was eating grass.

Isaiah Thomas

Coach said to stay with it and don't get frustrated. I knew later in the game my shots would start going in.

Coach said to hit singles, hit singles and the home runs will come. In the second half we slowed down.

Gilbert Arenas

Coach said, 'Throw away the plays. 'Throw away the plays?' All right. That's like playing outside.

Coach said this is probably the toughest part of our schedule by far. We have to make sure we focus.

Coach said that in the locker room that we better get used to this in crunch time. We had a critical play happen to us. Better it happens now than in the Final Four.

Chris Bryant

Coach said life on the road is always a challenge, and it's not always pretty.

Brandon Roy

Coach said just push it up the court. Push it and pull it. That's what I did.

Mike Bibby

Coach said it was the first time in 20 years he had seen that.

Brandon Rush

Coach said it's a mental thing, but it really does (affect you). Even Roby (Richard, CU guard, 15 points, 6-of-18 shooting) told me that he gets winded.

Marcus Ginyard

Coach said in the locker room that it wasn't perfect, but we made something out of it. We continued to push through, even though we hit a little adversity. We weren't hitting shots, and we were a little sloppy, but we turned something great out of it.

Coach said in the first half he thought I gave up on my team.

Ben Roethlisberger

Coach said if you go out there too early and get hurt, it negates the whole purpose of having the surgery. We're going to be smart about it. I'm not going to go out there if I can't protect myself, and put the team in jeopardy.

Patrick Patterson

Coach said he set these two games up back-to-back like this on purpose. We're trying to get our revenge.

Coach said for us to keep playing harder. We wanted to keep playing harder and wear them down. They looked exhausted in the last five minutes.

Coach said as long as I wasn't throwing crazy he'd leave me in. I know I was off early on, but I got better and felt stronger. It was my first start of the season, it was cold and I could never figure out the umpire's strike zone.

Mack Brown

Coach Royal and I have talked about this from the beginning. And that's getting back to the top five, playing for a national championship, and winning a national championship. Young people come to Texas and USC to play in these games.

Coach Roberts really worked on us all week to take it one game at a time, really focus on this game first, and now we're starting to focus on East Aurora.

Coach recruits guys who don't mind being pushed, being yelled at, who don't mind playing defense.

Coach really got on us about the second half.

Coach really didn't have to tell us anything, we just knew it was time to step up. As a team, we shouldn't need coach to tell us when to be intense. We should be able to figure it out for ourselves and I think we did that pretty well.

Coach Randolph was not happy with me because I wouldn't let him do what we do, and what we do is pressure. We just wanted to stay basic, naturally, because I'm sure there are people here watching us.

Coach put the confidence back in me and told me what he wanted me to do. When Coach wants you to go make plays, it makes it a lot better for you. I've got a lot more I'm not giving, so hopefully I can get it all out.