Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ike Taylor

It's an honor that the coaches have that kind of confidence in me.

It's a really nice honor when you consider it's a national award. It makes you think back over the years, about the number of coaches and student-athletes you've been involved with. It's all about the journey and memories -- all the great people you've been around.

It really feels good. It means the other guys who coach at the big places realize that what we did was an accomplishment. To be coach of the year, you have to have the team of the year, otherwise it doesn't mean much.

It really shocked me. Coach (Les) Miles from LSU was scheduled to be here (today). I really thought Anthony was leaning to LSU or Ole Miss, but I know Mississippi State wanted him badly. They've put in a ton of work on him lately.

Kelvin Sampson

I truly love Oklahoma, but Indiana is a program that all coaches hope to coach at one day. Once they offered, it was just one of those programs that I couldn't turn down.

It's a great win. We're happy to be 2-0. But I don't want our kids to think that we as coaches or them as players can be satisfied. We just have to play with a sense of urgency.

It's a great thing for us. The first time we played BYU, the coaches put us through a whole week of preparation.

It's a great run we've been on. I've been coaching these girls since they were in the fifth grade, so I don't expect anything less.

It's a little odd that we're nine games over .500 and we're making a coaching change, but we do have high expectations for our team. We know we have to play better down the stretch.

It's a hard process. But we go with what the coaches have seen over the course of two days and eight or nine games. They give us input on whom they think has played the best.

It's a joy to be around these kids and a joy to coach these kids. I hate to see the seniors go.

It's all about players. If you have players as a coach, you'll do well. I was lucky enough to have some great players over the years.

Larry Brown

It's all about making shots. The key to a Game 7 for a coach is to treat it like any other game.

I took a gamble on his having no coaching experience. It was a major move for me, but I was willing to take that gamble because of his name, his contacts and his vast playing experience in the N.H.L.

I told the kids before the game that coaching at Moss Point is one of the highlights of my career. It makes you better when you can play well and be fortunate enough to win the game.

I told them just before we met that one of the reasons why I'm staying here is because of them. What a pleasure it is to coach young guys like this. I have a lot of friends in this business, and not all of them have a team like we have. The kind of young men that we have, that want to be coached, that want to grow up and that want to be held responsible.

Will Muschamp

I told them I would be. I told them I think Auburn is a special place. I told them Auburn is a place where you can go and coach and be there for a long time. That's what I was looking at.

Geno Auriemma

I told them before the (Providence) game started, every team that I've ever coached that was consistently good had seniors that were very, very consistent. And it's time now for this group to kind of separate themselves and say, 'Hey, it's time for me to have an impact every single game and not be in those peaks and valleys.' I think they've all kind of made that progression.

I told the kids we're going to keep it simple and keep it intense. You hope you don't have to coach effort and with these girls I don't. Tonight we got great effort.

I told Whiz it took me two years to get him off the golf course and doing what he does best. And that's coach basketball.

Ben Roethlisberger

I told Tom that if I was a coach, that?s who I?d want on the field, ... I had all the confidence in the world in our defense and I?d still take our defense next time.

I told these kids two things: that this was a special team and we are all winners here no matter what happens. It was just a tremendous pleasure to coach them and be a part of this. To make it to the second round was truly special for us, obviously it was disappointing losing, but it was great. The pleasure was all mine. They were a tremendous team.

I told the players I wasn't going to coach them like high school kids. They're responding well. I ran the heck out of them in the early practices.

It is what it is. Coach is trying to give us rest during practice, but it's a new season and if you're tired or a little fatigued, you have to suck it up.

It's tough playing that team emotionally. Every single one of them out there I've coached for six, seven, eight years. It was fun to see a lot of those guys.

It's truly been a tremendous ride and I'm not ready to let go of it just yet. Coaching is something you have to love to do. You like to see kids succeed on the field but what they do in life is what's most important. To hear all the success stories, that's what makes a coach, a good one, the proudest.

Jahangir Khan

It's very difficult to do something without the support of the association. That was the reason why I did not get involved in coaching in Pakistan.

It's not just about 'here's a phone number, get married.' I facilitate the date, I'm a relationship coach. I'm their expert. I play their shrink -- their mother.

It's not spit out by some computer. I have objective numbers like that, but my pencil is my coaching tool.

Daniel Alfredsson

It's not something that in this dressing room is on our mind. I totally understand the media making a big deal out of this, but the coaching staff is going to handle this the right way, I have no doubt about that at all.

Marty Schottenheimer

It's not physical issues, it's discipline issues in our coverage, and it's not where it needs to be, quite frankly. We're not getting people where they need to be on a consistent basis. My sense is that we've got to do a better job of coaching them, and they've got do a better job of understanding exactly what it is we're putting forward.

John Calipari

It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody. We're all thrown in on this one. We all missed, all turned it over, all didn't play up to snuff. I didn't get the game fast enough, so I didn't coach well enough.

It's not magic. There's no secret formula. It's do what you're coached to do. That's why it's disgusting.