Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Richardson

The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together.

Matt Millen

The talent is there. We have not played up to that talent. We need to play at a higher level, and each player and each coach and each person in the front office has to do a better job.

Ozzie Newsome

The third piece was the job that the coaches did last year, taking that young squad and developing some of those young players, and then being able to augment it this year. We looked at it and said, '03 and '04 were what we were shooting for.

The thing you need to take into consideration and that you hear coaches talk about all the time is the fact that you need to perform for the entire match. I thought at times we played well and other moments we had breakdowns that cost us.

The thing that is going to be fun for high school coaches and fans is that we will literally be able to see one of our homegrown quarterbacks on TV every Saturday.

Bret Bielema

The thing that I'm excited about right now is another year to work under coach Alvarez.

The thing I'll remember the most is how tough those practices were when I first got here. With Coach (Bob) Huggins pushing me for three hours. It was different than what I was used to back home. It was the hardest thing, but it was also the most fun thing.

Flip Saunders

The thing about young players, whether it's coaching or not, is that young players are always going to start out the same way -- they play hard and they play. That's who they are. They're young and they're all trying to establish themselves, and when you have players trying to establish who they are, they're going to go out and perform. Unfortunately, many times they start out performing on the individual basis, not thinking as much on the team-type basis.

The thing about it was, I was just playing and did what coach Martin coaches. He really stresses throwing the unders, throw the wide routes. And that's really what I did was just throw completions.

The thing I told Rod is that I would have hated to have to try and coach him. He just didn't listen, but that's how talented he was. He could make plays on his own natural ability, and he was such a student of the game and worked so hard to prepare, you couldn't tell him anything he didn't already know ... or think he knew. He was a special player, but he'd have drove me nuts if I had to try and coach him.

I've loved every minute of it. Coach (Lon) Kruger made me a better player and I'm glad I made this choice.

Larry Brown

I've never coached that way, where we've never had a set rotation, except my first year in San Antonio, we had a lot of injuries. That's really hurt the team. It hurts your progress. All of a sudden, we settled on David at the three and we have the three-guard rotation for the most part. It helps everybody, I think.

I've never coached a player in 34 years who prepares like he prepares. To the detail, to the consistency, to how much he stresses the importance of getting himself into his game mode.

I've never been prouder in the two years I've been coaching these guys.

Fred Hoiberg

I've always wanted to come back and coach at Iowa State.

Geno Auriemma

I've been around her, I've coached her. When she gets it going, you can't guard her.

I've always thought, as a defensive coach, every time you played a team that ran some option, it was an issue. Whether it's three plays a game, five plays a game, eight plays a game, the thought that the option is there is something that forces the defense to be very disciplined and forces them to spend a lot of their preparation time in defending it.

I've always respected them. Coach Sampson does a great job. They're very athletic, they can really score, they put a lot of pressure on you.

Sebastian Coe

I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.

Johnny Pesky

I used to dodge them pretty good. I saw something in the kid shortstop. I wanted to talk to his coach first. I just had a suggestion I wanted to make to him. I'm not going to tell him how to play or anything like that ... but I never got there.

I've already told (quarterbacks coach Mike ) Bobo I don't know how much sleep I'm going to get Friday night.

Brady Quinn

I've always been confident in myself and my abilities. At this stage of my career, having coach Weis and having as much talent as I have around me, I may be one of the cockiest guys in the nation.

I usually don't doubt a coach when he goes in-state and gets guys like that so early. The coaches usually can see something in players like that and they knew what they wanted right away. When you think about problems with Florida's recruiting class, corner is one of the last things to come to mind.

Charlie Ward

I've always been the coach on the team; all my teams, ... Point guard, quarterback ... regardless I was a player-coach.

Billy Hatcher

I've always enjoyed going back to Cincinnati. When it's one of the places you played, as a coach, you say, 'I hope I can go back.' I was elated. It's a great feeling to coach where you've played.

I've always considered it a privilege to be the coach of this program. It has been a real honor to represent our school and our community as coach. I have a lot of good memories.

I've always felt that this was a young man's game and that we should do everything to let younger coaches come up and get the opportunity. That's the way I felt.

Mack Brown

I voted for Joe. What a great coach and a great role model. He's forgotten more than I will ever know.

Steve Tisch

I wanted to express to the players, the coaches and really the whole staff what being involved with the New York Giants has meant to my father. For the 14 years he's had the privilege of owning this team, it's been the greatest gift for him, professionally and personally.

I wanted a coach whose team would rebound relentlessly. And they rebound the heck out of the basketball.

Tom Izzo

Sometimes you look like, 'Who's coaching that team?' because you're not doing anything on the post guy. But when you have four three-point shooters that are shooting 50 percent or better, it's hard to double down on them. They're a tough team to beat. They have so many weapons.

Sometimes you talk to coaches and they don't understand ... the things that happen at the snap of the ball,

Sometimes you get conflicting reports, but everyone is on the same page. And it's starting to show that everybody is coaching the same thing. You just have to listen to all the information and stick to the plan.