Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You hope they'd have to coach that, ... just like a team that gives you a funky look on defense. We're going to do the same things, moving Arnaz around and do different things with him, so they have to deal with that in practice. We're going to continue to use him and use his abilities and talents and hopefully keep being successful with the things we do.

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.

You can tell he works hard. He's what coaches want. He's committed to the game, you can tell that.

Dee Brown

You can't depend on the crowd. You have to go out and play. Coach told us they would make everyone leave, and we knew once it started it was going to pack up.

George Fisher

You can't coach that. You either have it or not.

You can't coach during a match, so hopefully some of the things you talk about sink in. After the match we talk about what happened, what went wrong, and it usually comes down to course management.

Jake Voskuhl

You can kind of see there is a lot turmoil going on (in New York). I think maybe upstairs in the organization, with the coaching staff and with the players. It kind of seems like everyone's a little frustrated with one another. I think that's kind of what you're seeing on the court. It's hard to win games when everything's divided and I think that's kind of what you're seeing right now.

We had a talk today -- all the coaches did with all the girls -- they started off not where they needed to be earlier today. So we stopped the practice, sat them down and had a serious talk. Then they finished pretty hard.