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.

Michael Robinson

The senior class, we made up our mind in the off season. You know, Coach Paterno wasn't getting the respect he deserved.

These little mistakes we're making are starting to drive the coaching staff crazy. With a young team, we just need to focus on not making those mistakes in the future.

Hunter Adams

The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow as a coach everyday,

The team was already together. They had been practicing and everything else, and I think that team was like 16-1 or something. It wasn't my doing. I inherited a good team. But from that point on, I just started coaching and managing and working.

O. Henry

The team really works hard, everyone does. It's a great group of kids, and having a winning record is better than going 0-16 like we did last year, so it really shows how far we've come in one year. It's important to us. Our coaching is awesome, and how we play, it's just real hard work.

Giovanni Trapattoni

The team needs a few matches to learn to play together. It's completely normal that the team and the new coach have to get used to each other.

Shaun Suisham

The team needed a kicker and the offensive line coach gave me about a one-minute lesson.

Jason Richardson

The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together.

Matt Millen

The talent is there. We have not played up to that talent. We need to play at a higher level, and each player and each coach and each person in the front office has to do a better job.

Ozzie Newsome

The third piece was the job that the coaches did last year, taking that young squad and developing some of those young players, and then being able to augment it this year. We looked at it and said, '03 and '04 were what we were shooting for.

The thing you need to take into consideration and that you hear coaches talk about all the time is the fact that you need to perform for the entire match. I thought at times we played well and other moments we had breakdowns that cost us.

The thing that is going to be fun for high school coaches and fans is that we will literally be able to see one of our homegrown quarterbacks on TV every Saturday.

Bret Bielema

The thing that I'm excited about right now is another year to work under coach Alvarez.

The thing I'll remember the most is how tough those practices were when I first got here. With Coach (Bob) Huggins pushing me for three hours. It was different than what I was used to back home. It was the hardest thing, but it was also the most fun thing.

Flip Saunders

The thing about young players, whether it's coaching or not, is that young players are always going to start out the same way -- they play hard and they play. That's who they are. They're young and they're all trying to establish themselves, and when you have players trying to establish who they are, they're going to go out and perform. Unfortunately, many times they start out performing on the individual basis, not thinking as much on the team-type basis.

The thing about it was, I was just playing and did what coach Martin coaches. He really stresses throwing the unders, throw the wide routes. And that's really what I did was just throw completions.

The thing I told Rod is that I would have hated to have to try and coach him. He just didn't listen, but that's how talented he was. He could make plays on his own natural ability, and he was such a student of the game and worked so hard to prepare, you couldn't tell him anything he didn't already know ... or think he knew. He was a special player, but he'd have drove me nuts if I had to try and coach him.

I've loved every minute of it. Coach (Lon) Kruger made me a better player and I'm glad I made this choice.

Larry Brown

I've never coached that way, where we've never had a set rotation, except my first year in San Antonio, we had a lot of injuries. That's really hurt the team. It hurts your progress. All of a sudden, we settled on David at the three and we have the three-guard rotation for the most part. It helps everybody, I think.

I've never coached a player in 34 years who prepares like he prepares. To the detail, to the consistency, to how much he stresses the importance of getting himself into his game mode.

I've never been prouder in the two years I've been coaching these guys.

Fred Hoiberg

I've always wanted to come back and coach at Iowa State.

Geno Auriemma

I've been around her, I've coached her. When she gets it going, you can't guard her.

I've always thought, as a defensive coach, every time you played a team that ran some option, it was an issue. Whether it's three plays a game, five plays a game, eight plays a game, the thought that the option is there is something that forces the defense to be very disciplined and forces them to spend a lot of their preparation time in defending it.

I've always respected them. Coach Sampson does a great job. They're very athletic, they can really score, they put a lot of pressure on you.