Famous Quotes & Sayings

As an athlete, you get to the starting line and run. As a coach you are going from one spot to another. I'm still figuring things out. But I'm starting to enjoy it.

Plaxico Burress

As a kid growing up, you always dreamed of playing on 'Monday Night Football,' ... This is a different situation. You've got players and coaches on their team that lost homes, have scattered family members. They definitely have a lot to come out and play for, and doing it on a Monday night stage, because of the situation, they're definitely going to be emotional.

As a head coach, we go to such tough tournaments, this is my first win. We've placed second everywhere and third everywhere. We finally get a win.

The big thing is just remaining calm. Coach says you can't peak emotionally before the game.

Joseph Garcia

Audra had a visit at Western (New Mexico University) and their coach was here watching. I've been telling people she can shoot the three. After she hit one, I could see him smiling.

At some point after the hiring of Coach Linehan, we all decided to go through the current draft and then re-evaluate.

Ryan Hollins

A win like that just feels good, something that was well-deserved. Coach has always told us that we deserved this (NCAA Tournament run), that this is our moment.

Back then, you didn't have the quarterback-coach communication (through the speaker system in the helmet),

As of right now, he is still the head coach, but all indications are that he will be the next coach at Sumrall.

Barry Alvarez

As I visit with some of the other coaches in leagues that have playoffs, I don't think that there's any excitement about the playoff. Sure, it's a big payoff for one game, but I think it diminishes some of the season. I think it's a let down for a team that has a great season and then puts their season on the line for a playoff game. And it all seems done for no other reason than a paycheck.

Rich Rodriguez

As I told the team, we're not only looking for guys who can learn the system, we're also looking for guys who love to compete every day. The greatest players I've ever coached were guys who not only had talent, but wanted to win every drill they were in, and every play.

As our coach says, we got a lot of guys that can score 20 points on any given night.

Gary Bettman

As in other instances involving players, coaches or managers, we hold all members of the NHL family to a higher standard than the general public,

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

That's what we were talking about as coaches after the game, the fact that we didn't fold when Kenny went down. It's great to have guards.

John Hunter

That's what we stress - four turnovers a game. We saw some things on film and we knew that Coach Wilkins was going to do something with that play at some point in the game.

That's what we need - the younger guys pushing the older guys. That's how we get better. Coach Johnson wants to see us come out here and compete.

That's what we always talk about--your teammates being able to trust you, your coaches being able to trust you. I don't ever want there to be an instant where they doubt they can count on me. Especially being a nine-year vet--you want to be accountable. You have to be accountable to the team and yourself.

Joe Elliott

That's what this tour is, a celebration of our 25 years. We concentrate on the hits, the first time we've done that on tour. We have to drop some of them (for time), but that's a great position to be in. It's like a football coach who has a team where everyone is fit and ready to play.

Daniel Graham

That?s what they do. That?s part of their defense. We?ll be ready for it. That?s what we work on all week. The coaches put us in the right spot. When we go to the line, that?s what we look for from the defense. We look to see what they might do.

That's why coaches tell players to never give up. Little mental mistakes like that is how you score.

That's why coaches tell players never to give up. That's a key example right there In a game like this, little mental mistakes like that are how you score.

That team over there (Edmond North), they were awesome. Coach Philbrick has got his kids playing so well. But our guys are tired of people saying they're not any good, that they're not going to be able to do anything this year without all the guys we lost.

Nigel Worthington

That's not a problem. We can all be managers and coaches. I make decisions as I and my coaching staff see it - it's as simple as that.

That's my role tonight. That's what coach wants us to do. I tried to make as many plays as I could with the ball.

That's just something we do every day in practice. We go hard and somebody's going to fall. You just have to get back up and get back in the play. It comes from practicing with Coach Calhoun. He's never just going to let you lay there.

That's just me being me. People don't need to worry about it. I know what's going on and I hear the talk. Coach Curry found a little humor in it. It's not a big deal.

That's just Coach Carroll's philosophy. We always want to be the ones that decide the game.

James Augustine

That's fine. It's easy for us. We watch the same film and maybe the (last) game to see what we did right and wrong. The scouting report is the same. So it's easier on the coaches and easier on us.

That's great as a coach to see that because you want to strike early. That's really been big for us.

Roy Williams

That one hurt for a long time, ... It made me, over the course of that summer, sit back, try to investigate myself, try to see if there was something I was doing wrong, see if my goals were right. At that time, I decided my new No. 1 goal was going to be live long enough to coach my grandchildren.

That never gets old as a coach. I know when (Thomas) goes to the mound he's going to throw strikes. There's never a question about that. And if you can do that, more times than not you're going to come out on the right side of things.

We've never offered a scholarship here to a guy that coach Novak hasn't met. He will not do it.