Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

They're good. I think he's a great coach.

Jeff Mathews

They're so well coached and impressive on film. They don't miss many tackles and don't drop the ball. We're going to have to play 100% better to win this week. It'll be a big test for us early.

They're so much better this year than they were last year, it's not even close. Coach (Joe) Crawford always had a positive outlook. They are much improved.

Jim Caldwell

They're professionals, when they take the field, they want to win. So it's a matter of professional pride, and also our head coach expects us to go out and play hard and play well.

Kim Williams

They're going to push each other in every event. You want to talk about a tandem. These coaches all look at them and say we don't have anything like that. I'm glad they don't.

Ben Gordon

They're going to be smart enough to eventually induct Coach Calhoun. He's won two championships.

They're down in the locker room. They're out on the practice field occasionally. They're 100 percent involved. It just trickles down from there to the general manager, the coach and the players.

They're doing great. They're the foundation of our team. We're really lucky to have guys that are really well-coached. Coach Puck Smith has done a great job with them, and they all know how to work well with each other.

They're a good team, but we wanted this win for Coach on the home court.

They're not going to go away. They're talented, extremely well coached and they're not going to quit. This time, we made the shots and free throws we needed in the fourth quarter. Last time, we didn't.

They have liked how it has turned out. We know those coaches and respect their opinions.

There's a lot of Iowans who have gone on to be good at the college coaching level. I want to be one of them.

There's a lot of interest from very qualified coaches, coaches who have had success at their programs. I was very surprised that it would create that kind of interest, and that quickly.

Jim Calhoun

Albany gave us every single thing they had. I hugged Coach Brown, who I don't even know, and said to him very simply, 'You guys are special.' And they were special.

Aliens who have been smuggled into the U.S. have often been coached by members of the smuggling organization on what to say and what not to say.

You're sad because as a competitor you'd like to go to the national championship game every year. I'm happy because six years from when coach (Bob) Knight was let go this is still a program. I'm very disappointed and sad I didn't get it done the way I would have liked.

Rod Marinelli

You would think, at this level, that you shouldn't have to coach tackling. No, you do. The people that don't, don't tackle well. You watch games and say, 'Man, that's sloppy tackling.' Well, you have to work on tackles and angles. It's your fundamentals. It's like if you are playing golf, you work on your golf swing even if you played 20 years, right?

You want the player to have a similar experience everywhere he plays in the system, so all of our coaches have to be on the same page. And if you run down the list of our coaches, you'll find that they share a lot of qualities. It's a low ego, high work ethic thing that runs through the whole organization, and as a result, a lot of the players we develop have those same qualities.

Seth McClung

You've just got to learn from a day like today. I'm a poor player if I don't come back and try to get better. I've been working a lot with the coaching staff, really trying to figure this thing out. All I can do is show up tomorrow and work as hard as I can to get ready for the next one." ()

You should have gone with coach to the Final Four. He would stop to talk to John Wooden, and he would talk to a fan. And you couldn't tell the difference.

You see that. He walks up to the player and he's very firm like a coach. He speaks like a coach.

Tyrus Thomas

You said I was on nobody's radar. That's other people's fault. I knew what I could do. Coaches knew what I could do.

Your goal is to coach the perfect game, and to have all your players, play the perfect game. That first year is difficult. You can never really be prepared for it. You are going to make mistakes. You just have to learn from those mistakes.

Your first head coaching job is the toughest year of your life,

Larry Brown

You're not supposed to have to coach effort. I've never been in a situation where that's ever been an issue. I've always been in places where I knew you could count on the effort. But again, this is as young a group as I've had in a long time.

Archie Manning

You're not even in there very long. And most coaches say the same things over and over. Probably 20 guys on the team could give his speech for him.

Avery Johnson

You're not always going to get a double-double but we want him to play with emotion and intensity. Does what he did tonight make coach happy for the rest of the playoffs? No way. He's still paying me back.

You're humbled to be part of one of the most elite groups of coaches in the world. This is good stuff.

You're going to be coached to be a pro. You're going to be pushed to where you may not even know you have this level. That's a big deal with me. You're not always going to like it, but you're going to be treated honestly and you're going to be treated fairly.

Larry Brown

You're coaching a storied franchise, ... I want to see this franchise respected, being a contender every year, having people come to the Garden and saying, 'Man, they played the right way.'

You never know what to expect with a new coach.

Joe Smith

You never know. It's a totally new system. When (former coach) Terry Porter was here the first year, we jelled right away. It could happen again. If we have everybody healthy, it shouldn't take too long.

You never have to worry about motivation with coach Meyer. He always has that part covered. He's going to motivate you, he's going to get you going. If he can't, then nobody can.