Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

I don't look at it like I'm on them, I'm trying to teach them, ... When they do something right I try to tell them they do something right. When they do something wrong you try to coach them. This is the way I was taught and the way we've always done it.

I don't look any more forward than the time when we were injured. Your job as a coach is to maximize the abilities of what is on hand at any given time.

Jaromir Jagr

I don't like teams where the general manager or coaches are separated, ... Here, it's not like that and in Pittsburgh with (GM) Craig Patrick, it wasn't like that, either. Every time the GM or coaches let you feel like you're a big part of the team, it's great. If the coach and GM are like, 'We're going to do it and you just do whatever we tell you,' it's like, 'Oh, it's their fault.' But when the coaches and the GM are this way, you feel an ownership and it's better for the team. You give more.

Jerome Bettis

I do know that I would have loved to have been in there late in the game, ... Coach and I talked about all the situations that happened in the game and everything that was going on. But it's a conversation I'm going to keep and not talk about.

William Shakespeare

Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.

Carson had a lot of reasons to be emotionally down, but their coaches did a good job because they were ready to play.

He always wanted to coach. He would come in my office and say, 'Let's talk coaching.' I would say, 'Well, it is kind of hard to divorce myself of the situation since you are one of my players. So we're not going to talk long.'?

He called one of the coaches to let him know.

(Head coach Dennis) Murphy got on me at halftime and I took that as a challenge. I went out with more intensity in the second half.

Heather is one of the up-and-coming coaches in our profession. I loved her competitiveness as a player and am excited to have her on the Utah volleyball staff.

Chan Gailey

He also said coaches coach, and administrators administrate.

Greg Schiano

He really has a great demeanor about him. I can't tell you what's going on inside but to all the players and coaches he sure is a cool customer. Sometimes in life if that's how you appear, even if you're not, it makes everybody else comfortable.

Ben Howland

Herb is a great coach. He's so smart and intelligent. Our league is a great league. It's getting tougher and tougher. Herb just made it tougher.

Rick Barnes

Herb hasn't been appreciated the way he should be appreciated. He deserves more than the way he's been treated. He has poured everything he has into the job. I don't think they could find a better coach for their program.

He probably transported more kids home than any two coaches in the entire state of South Carolina. They would get to some of the major Saturday meets a little later because Y.C. was going around picking his kids up.

If it happens, it happens, ... I'll be proud of it, but I haven't mentioned it. I've been around a lot of years. ... I'll be proud of it, but I've had a lot of great coaches and great ballplayers. It'll be nice, but it's not something I dream about.

If I can't teach, I can't coach right now. You can't resign one and not the other, it's an all or nothing deal.

Daunte Culpepper

If I am not traded, I want to help coach Childress make a serious run for the championship this year.

If he was at a Midwest junior college... he would have ended up at a top 10 program. He wanted a coach that would let him lead. He hasn't lost in about two years. It's not in his DNA.

I feel like I've moved up, ... I really feel like the coaches and scouts and general managers, I think they're really interested in me.

If I had that answer, we'd be winning games. It's frustrating, obviously. We've been making critical mistakes at critical times. It's a very tough thing for a coach to accept.

If I'm the head coach and I'm down on the goal line, a thousand times out of a thousand I'd run the same play and give him the ball.

If I'm open, I'll shoot the ball. I take shots that coach will be OK with. I don't try and create too much.

I figured that would happen when he went up there. He and his family really put a lot of time into the recruiting process; they really did their research. I know that they were really impressed with (head) coach (Sylvester) Croom.

Ray Lewis

If I'm a head coach and my starting quarterback leaves for the season, and I have the leading rusher in the NFL last year, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know my game plan,

If I'm a Division I coach, this is an event I want to be at. But they've put more restrictions on Division I coaches on the weekends they can come out and the events they can attend. But if I'm a Division I, II or III coach and I can make it, this is a great recruiting tool. If you don't come out, you're missing the boat.

Carl Crawford

I called it a step (in the right direction). When I was hitting. and the coaches were pitching, I was feeling no pain.

Cedric Benson

I definitely want to be a starter. I have no desire to sit with the coaches on the sidelines. So I'm going to be working toward making that happen,

I definitely think it is scary for opposing defenses because we have so many weapons out there. I'd hate to be an opposing coach trying to stop us. These guys are explosive.

Eddy Curry

I definitely see that out here in his coaching, ... He really stresses perfection out there for the bigs and for his point guards. Totally different style from what coach Skiles did. It's two different coaches, so I'm just trying to get used to everything and just take it all in.

Jimmy Johnson

I'd hate to be the coach that sits him down.

I'd give everything, I mean everything, to get a win for coach in this one.

I'd hope kids would see that our coaching style is a little different. We're trying to have more fun and not be so worried about mistakes. We're focusing on improvement. Some of the years when you have a legitimate state title expectation, it has been more intense.