Famous Quotes & Sayings

...We will send two of our youth coaches to Madrid in September when their season starts in September and at the back end of the season this May.

We will not name a new coach until after the Final Four.

We will not let down. We don't want to lose. 13-0 doesn't guarantee us anything. We want to keep our rhythm, keep our chemistry. We want to keep on playing until coach says no.

There are a lot more expectations and a lot fewer excuses. It's time for us to see where we really are. The coaches have put the pressure on us because when you're winning you have to continue to stay working hard.

When it happened, Coach said it might be a blessing. He tried to put a positive spin on it. We had time to go back and think about it, and we executed that plan.

We felt aggrieved at a few decisions, but we can't use that as an excuse. We have to learn how the referees want us to play the game. We've had a meeting where the coaches have told us that's the case. We have to put things right and cut out the penalties that have cost us so dearly.

We got off to a fast start. But East wouldn't let us go away and hide. We didn't play particularly well in the last three quarters, so it's good we got off to the good start. Coach (John) Johnston's players played hard all night.

We expect our coaches to be role models, and we expect our students to be role models. We make no apologies for setting high standards.

Jake Delhomme

We expected to move at a fast pace, and that's how coach Fox likes to practice,

We don't want a situation where the season has started and people are still talking about who will be the new coach in 2007.

Toni Kukoc

We're going to be an important part of the plan in the game. But I don't think there are going to be too many minutes. Coach is not going to probe too much in these games. Whoever goes in has to produce right away.

We're very pleased -- thrilled. It's just an indication of what we value as an institution. It's a real credit to our coaches who work hard in all sports to go out and identify kids who are good student-athletes. And it's obviously a testament to kids who work hard to do well in sports and in the classroom.

Ben Howland

Arizona's an outstanding team. I have the utmost respect for coach (Lute) Olson. He's one of the great coaches of all time.

Around here, our coaches don't let us get back on the field unless we're ready, ... I was ready to go out and play. They let you work your way back in and get on the field at your pace.

As a coach you try to be creative, but when you see something from a coach, a legend, you take a napkin, or a piece of paper and you write something down and keep it.

As a coach, you look at your team a little more critically than others do. But you do respect the fact that coaches look at you as the No. 1 seed.

As a coach, you expect these kinds of reactions... but it is another thing to look at the faces of the young players.

Mike McConathy

As a coach you don't like the switch routine, flip the light switch off and on. Fortunately, we're able to do that. One of the things that was interesting tonight was we didn't create the electricity for (the crowd) to be here where they are hungry and excited to be a part of it. The players have to do something to make the crowd excited." ()

As a coach you are always optimistic, you always look forward to next season. And that's what I'm doing.

As a coach, you always worry about the distractions of the week and keeping your feet on the ground.

As a coach you always wonder what it's like to walk out on that floor at state, and now we get to find out.

Mike Kelly

As a coach, the greatest compliment from another coach is to say your kids worked hard. I have the utmost respect for Mark Morris. What a solid team they are.

Mark Gottfried

As a coach, sometimes that's a difficult thing to do.

As a coach or a player, you just dream about something like this. I thought (the shot) was a miss at first.

As a coach I was looking into the eyes of my battery, two sophomores. When you can get them to look you in the eye and then do what you say, you feel pretty good.

As a coach it was my responsibility to give her whatever opportunity was out there. You have to go with your gut feeling. I knew when she had 58 points that there was something special going on.

As a coaching staff, we saw that this guy has just a much more natural swing left-handed. Now he's had some success, so I think we're going to keep him on the left side no matter who's pitching.

As a coaching staff we're trying to make sure (the gymnasts) feel confident in what they're doing. We reassure them that the gymnastics they're doing looks really good, and they're going to be ready.

As a coaching staff we're proud of the kids, seeing improvements out of the kids every time we wrestle.

As a coaching staff, I thought that our coaches did a great job of preparing. We debated about how we wanted to come out and we decided to come out aggressively. Getting out to that fast start really helped.

The kids played very hard. They could have folded, but that's what the Bobcat tradition is all about. We never gave up. I'm proud of the players, proud of the coaches and proud of the seven seniors that are on this team.

The kids played hard, that wasn't the problem. I just felt like I didn't do a good job coaching tonight. I guess that's why I'm so frustrated.

The kids played hard in a very good game and we really stepped up our shooting in the fourth quarter. Nathan (Mahomet head coach Nathan Seal) has put together a quality program over there so this is a big win for us.