Famous Quotes & Sayings

We just want the guys to be around them. We're going to let them coach. For that team to go 15-0 is a heck of feat and there had to be something special about that group. We're glad that they'll share some of that with this team.

Steve Spurrier

We just wanted to look around in the stadium and realize how fortunate we are to be able to coach and play in front of 80,000 people that love their team like we have here. Who knows if it does any good or not? We'll find out Saturday at 1 o'clock.

We just wanted to find an open look. Coach told me I could shoot it if I wanted to. There wasn't really enough time for anything else.

We just try and make plays. The coaches do a good job of mixing it up. A lot of times the coverage dictates it. I think 'Jack' is always going to be the primary guy, he deserves that.

We just found out about it today. We've made a decision how we're going to go forward, and coach Hunter isn't here tonight. We're going to move forward from that. That's the last we're going to talk about. We're just going to move forward.

We just focus on every game. Coach gets on us at practice a lot. It keeps us grounded.

We weren't supposed to lose this game, but they're the No. 1 team in the country, they are very well coached and they did a great job. My hat goes off to those guys. They are excellent.

There's so many things as a coach that you see. The room for improvement is huge for us, and we'll come back and work on that.

There's going to be hard, hard decisions for our coaches and Ted and his staff.

There's no reason for that in the game. It's flat-out embarrassing. I don't coach that way, and I don't expect him to play that way.

There's no question that you always want to manage, ... I managed once, but right now, what I want to do is to coach for the New York Yankees.

There's no question that Thad is just what you want in a coach. He's done a marvelous job in the two years he's been here. I'm fortunate to work with lots of great coaches and Thad is one of the best. We want him to be a Buckeye forever.

Tom Osborne

There's no question I had a name recognition advantage, but as time went on people started to focus on the issues and not who was a football coach and who wasn't.

Steve Alford

There's no question I don't think it's a very good thing when coaches or players get booed by the home crowd. That's never something that's positive.

There's not a lick of 'I' in the kid. He's one of those guys that coaches just love, and wherever he goes, they'll find that out in a hurry.

Bill Snyder

There's no doubt there will be things that will be different from when we played them two years ago. We can run ourselves silly looking at Ohio State tape (when Mark Snyder coached there), this year's Marshall and looking at our game with them.

There's no doubt in my mind he's the coach of the year. Everybody picked us for 30th. What he's done with the team, the way he is, the way he's coached, he should win it by miles.

There's no fire-and-brimstone lecture (for tonight's game). It's a game we want to win because we want to win our 19th game, and we want to play in the postseason. Not because it's Rice. And that's no disrespect to Rice. I've never coached that way.

There's only a couple of coaches they really don't like. He's up there on the list.

John Baldwin

There's no way we're giving up. It's like our coach says, it's not if you're happy after the short. It's if you're happy after the long.

There's no way that I would have come back to coaching if I didn't want to win, because winning is a big part of my personality, regardless of what I do.

There's not much coaching other than substitutions and timeouts. It will be run and gun.

Jim Haslett

There's nothing you can do about it. You just try to take it day by day, and every day is different. I really am proud of how the players and their coaches have handled the situation. They go with the flow.

There's nothing harder and more unpredictable than high school state tournaments. I don't know if I've ever seen a team persevere better. I know I've never coached one, but I don't know if I've ever seen one.

There's no team in the country, anywhere, that a coach got their kids to play harder than Rod Barnes did.

Martin Biron

There's not a whole lot of coaches that can say they've got 300 wins. That's definitely a big honor, especially in a season like this year where it's a 100-point season. It's big. That's big all around.

There's not a real distraction. Like Coach Shanahan tells us -- handle it the day before, and the day of the game, we can just focus on the game. I think we did a good job last week, and I think it'll be the same this week.

The total value, in five days, of the coaches lost exceeds R22-million.

The training in Finland developed a lot of our skiing skills. But that short period of training is not enough. Inviting a foreign coach to stay with us for a long period of time is the key way for us to understand their real concepts in training.

Stephon Marbury

The timing was off. I was trying to run the play Coach wanted us to run, and it just didn't work out ... It's part of the game. It could go the other way for us, and eventually, one day it will.

Jay Wright

Is that with an asterisk? ... It's an honor because obviously the coaches have a high regard for our players. Now we have to go out and earn it.

I spent a lot of time evaluating each individual's traits because I feel that not only are the players a team, but we as a coaching staff are also a team.

Is it a coaching issue? Are we recruiting the wrong student athletes? Is it a resource issue? Is it a facility issue? Something is preventing us in some sports from being more successful. My job is to figure out what that is and get coaches the resources they need to be successful.