Famous Quotes & Sayings

You hear coaches talk about players being in the doghouse. It's not one of those things. It's a kid who made a mistake. She served her time and she's learned from it.

You hear coaches say it all the time, you can't replace a person of that level... but you hope you can get somebody who can come in and fill that void.

You have to make strong moves around her, and I was able to do that. The game plan was great. Coach put us in a position to win this game.

You have coaches trusting players and players trusting coaches, ... Donovan's one of the toughest competitors I've ever been around, maybe the toughest.

Lou Holtz

With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.

With P-Willie being out, Coach O wanted me to try the position to see how it worked out, ... It (was) a lot of thinking and a lot of the mental part of the game.

You have to take what Coach Spurrier tells you to do and just go out there and do it. It's a lot of fun playing for him.

You had a lot of dinosaurs as far as coaches in the conference. New coaches have really invigorated the conference.

Daniel Briere

You have to give him credit. He's been known as a defensive coach pretty much his whole career.

You have to give coach Sherman and their seniors credit. A couple of their veterans stepped up when they had to and that's what you have to do in these kinds of games.

This year, he will lead, because a lot of these coaches and myself, there's no way we could know all (the rookies). There's no way. There's only so much we can do.

This year he is probably in the top 10 to 15 coaches in the country.

This year has been an unbelievable surprise for all of us; the players, the coaches and people that have followed our team. Now we are hot and playing very well. It is an interesting team because we have some core leaders and now late in the year a whole host of players are starting to be difference-makers.

This year has been a lot tougher than last year. This is probably one of the toughest coaching jobs I've ever had. You're getting everybody's No. 1; there's no hiding. Trying to repeat is the toughest thing.

When I was running in high school, it was more difficult to locate college coaches, hard for high school coaches to get your name out, so to speak,

Pete Carroll

What was I thinking? I was coming in after the coach of the decade.

What tremendous leaders those two are. On and off the court, the things they do are spectacular, and they don't get the limelight. It's easy to coach when you have players like that (whom) you don't have to worry about. They lead by example.

What Coach Reid does is just try and share his confidence, ... He says, 'Hey, we got it started. Let's keep it going.' That's where our sights are.

Charlie Jones

What they do such a good job of is coaching effort,

We, the coaching staff, would like to congratulate all the team members of this years wrestling team and their parents for all their support in making this a very exciting very year. Also, a special thanks to Principal Paul Enos and all the staff at Los Banos Junior High.

Guus Hiddink

We (the coaching staff) make the decision - I'd like to talk to my group of technical people and we make the in-principle decision,

Ken Hitchcock

We talked this summer, and the one thing I told him is you find out pretty quickly you have to put a lot of fingers in dikes. You spend a great deal of your time just fixing everyday problems. That's kind of what a coach is, a problem solver.

Wes Walz

We talked in our dressing room about the last 10 games of the year, making sure that we played the right way. Obviously the coaching staff and management are going to remember the last 10 games before they're going to remember the first 10 games, so we have a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride, contracts and different things.

We spent a lot of time relaxing by the pool. Coach really made sure we had a great time.

John Jay

Thursday's game was difficult for me as a coach to endure. Today's was not. I'm pleased today. We dug ourselves a huge hole, no doubt about it, but we found a rhythm.

Tony would run our coaches out of there to get back to their families when it was getting too late in the night.

Tony's got a whole mantle filled with basketballs. That's all you need to know about how good a coach the man is. He's outstanding.

Tony Lewis is the most underrated football player out there. Once college coaches find out about Tony, he'll get serious looks from colleges. He's a wonderful young man.

We've been slow coming out of the gate, so it was important to get off to a strong start like that. Credit has to be given to the entire team. Our defensive coaches put together a great game plan and the players executed it.

We tried to get him four years ago. He wanted to come, but the coaches didn't want him. We couldn't get him past the coaches. So he goes to New England and wins three Super Bowls.

Bob Sanders

We talked about being fast, about being physical. Everyone on our team is fast. Everyone on our team is physical. ... Everybody understands what coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.

We just needed time to get used to each other. A new coach, five incoming freshmen - that was obviously going to take some time for people to gel and come together under a new system to work together.

We just needed a spurt. Coach wanted us to get a defensive stop, and he was just telling us we needed that one guy. I thought it was time for me to step into that role.