Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have a couple more who if we were voting today would probably get in, ... and I'll match the strength of our coaches with any league in the country.

Hines Ward

We have a coach who's been here 14 years, and that says something right there about how the team operates.

We have a burnt-out coach which could contain 50 or 60 people. We won't know that until we've recovered it.

We had three tough road games and won two of them. Any coach in the country would be happy with that.

This was my first time back coaching in Rankin County and I know so many people down here, so I was hoping we would have a good showing. I hope we can keep it up the next two days.

Those two guys are lights out. (Pitching coach Xavier Hernandez) and me don't even have to talk. If we have the lead after seven, he knows who goes in.

This team sort of rides my attitude, and if I'm ornery, they get nervous, and if I get frustrated, they get frustrated. So I was very focused tonight on just playing this game together and having fun. I didn't do any wonderful coaching other than letting my team play.

This team played scrappy and hard-nosed all year long. We know how well Flanagan is coached and that their pitcher would be throwing in the zone. There was no give up, and the kids learned how to play hard.

This team has worked so hard all season. This says a lot for these kids. I love coaching a team like this.

Jay Cutler

This team has stuck together. We're a close-knit family. The coaches have been great, and things are going our way right now.

This team has been such a great group to coach because they're so locked in on their goal. They all have colds and sore throats, but there are seven other teams right now. If you have a cold or sore throat that's not what you're going to remember in two months.

This team had to go through so much the last two weeks with the injuries, and then they won their first-ever NCAA tournament game Friday. I love coaching this team so much, it just wasn't our night. But we took another step this year.

Kelvin Sampson

This team desperately needs leadership. Coaches can fuel practice, but come game time, you've got to have kids that are more vocal, with more fire.

This was the easiest team to coach because these guys were the most focused group. We had no off-court issues and no problems of any kind in terms of trying to motivate.

This was a big game for us. Coach talks about set-up games. We set ourselves up to be in a good position.

Chad Henne

What my high school coach and I were saying is we can go back home with our heads up high now,

We focused on ourselves and the players at Washington. We respect Coach Willingham, but at the end of the day, it's just football. Really, we're just happy for the 'W'.

We focused on him in the scouting report and in practice. We just didn't come out and do a good job like we should have by listening to the coaches about making him dribble and take it to the basket.

We focused on getting off to a fast start because coach thought we'd be cold because we'd all been home sleeping all day. It's just hard to get going on game days when there's no school so we wanted to make sure we were ready.

We finished at the right time. Ivan punched it in and it was great. I'm so excited. It's fun coaching these guys.

We got a little lucky, and that's the only reason we're playing Friday. Yorkville played great. I told the guys that I've been coaching for 20 years and there's only one game I remember that was a blowout.

Jake Delhomme

We go on the road, it's just us. You have to believe. It's going to be loud, but we concentrate on our job. Coach (John) Fox does a good job with that.

John Chaney

We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime.

We gained some momentum and Coach Templeton called a nice strategic timeout to take away our momentum. And it was successful. We weren't tough enough stick through that. But in the second half I think we did play a much more intense game.

We just do what we're told, because Coach Kane is a great coach. Our strengths are we want to be good, and we are willing to play hard. We can hang with some of those in teams in the Top 10.

We knew eventually they were going to make a run. Coach just stressed to go out there and keep being aggressive. A lot of their points were coming off our mistakes.

We knew Coach Snyder wasn't that type of guy. It would have been easier for him to quit earlier in the season, but we've been through so much we knew he didn't quit.

We knew after winning the MAC tournament and the regular season last year that we would have a huge bullseye on our back. Coach (Curt) Miller talked about that all year, that we had to be ready every night because so many teams would be after us even more.

We kind of started to panic there and the coaches told us to slow down and just shoot the ball.

We kind of made it a point -- the coaches did in the meetings. We've got to get ugly goals and start driving the net. I thought we did a lot better job of driving to the net. Everybody did it tonight.

Al Horford

It would be great for (Donovan), our program and for the University of Florida to win a national championship. Our coaches have worked so hard, and we really want to give them this win.

Joe Girardi

It would have been a great opportunity. I just wish the timing was different. I don't think major league coaches can be part of this tournament because it could last the whole month of March, when we're in spring training.

Greg Schiano

I've never had a make-or-break year in my life. I'm going to coach football, it's what I do. This program, to me, everything is pointing in the right direction. So we're going to work as hard as we can and be as smart as we can.