Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Thibault

It is a great experience. The two teams I coached on the men's side were some of the most exciting moments in my coaching life. Obviously winning NBA Championships and CBA Championships and being in the WNBA Finals are all highlights. But playing and coaching for your country in a gold medal game is pretty intense.

Allen Johnson

He's a great kid. He's been coached in football his whole life. His dad has been a Pop Warner coach for 30 years, so you know what you're going to get from him. I'm really impressed with how he played in this game.

Steve Howey

Good corners were going with the deep guys, so we've got to hit the underneath stuff. If teams give us the deep route, Jon can hit it, but well coached teams aren't going to give that to us.

I also coached Alexander's dad (Gary). That's the first time that's happened.

I always like to see them because I coached them in junior high. They're all nice kids but it would be nice to get over the hump and get a win.

I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of my passions to come to a school and always leave it better than it was.

Bill Cowher

He's coached in a lot of different places and tinkered with a lot of different ideas, but I've kept the same practice format that I learned from him for 14 years here. I guess he's gone the full cycle. He's always been very open-minded. He's receptive to change.

Mau had a great first half. But he got worn down in the second half and their defense had a lot to do with it. They are very well coached and did a great job of taking him out of the game in the second half.

None of those service members were coached as to what to say.

Geno Auriemma

No one ever talks about our defense. Our defense has always been good. But when you have great offensive players like I've coached the last 15 years, it's hard to concentrate on our defense. But our defense has been pretty good.

She's one in a million. I've coached her three years, and there's nothing she can't do.

Gary Pinkel

Shoot, when I was in Seattle, in our 15 spring practices when I coached at Washington, 13 of them were like this. So I just I felt like I was back at home.

Mike Thibault

She had already played in the league a couple years before I coached her, so she had already proven that she was worthy of being in the league. And she's been to the Final Four twice. She knows how to win.

She's a great player, as good as I've ever seen and coached against.

She's the most competitive player I've ever coached or played with. And I consider myself very competitive.

She's a very mature athlete. When I coached her she was one of the leaders on the team. She's encouraging and impacts the players around her. She'll never give up. That's what you need out of a defensive player.

We did some things wrong, but for the most part, they were doing what they were coached to do. They were executing today. We train to possess the ball, and that's probably 75 percent of our training sessions. It's something that we work on a lot, and it was pretty well done.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

We definitely had a chance. They're a well coached team, they run their offense well and do a lot of good things.

Karl Malone

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Bill Parcells

God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only four 2-point field goals. It was a true team effort.

I thought the kids did a great job after I left. I was proud of my kids. They did everything I'd coached them to do.

I think we're on the right track for next season. I think that getting out here, getting coached by all the new coaches, has been a good thing for us and kind of propelled us past the rebuilding stages with the coaches.

I think what you saw today was a poorly motivated, poorly coached team from BU,

We've coached some tremendous games. It's a cliche, but you can throw the records out the window when these teams play. Some years we've had the upper hand, but most years he's had the upper hand.

But, I've never coached a player as versatile as Brandon.

I would like to think it had an impact. I've coached in this state for a long time, and I know a lot of coaches. I think people know what I stand for and what I will instill in my players.

Frank Beamer

We have a football team that is extremely well coached and plays hard. They really took it to Pittsburgh. It wasn't a fluke.

We encourage them (student athletes) to play other sports as long as they are lifting for football. The kids need to be well-rounded and to be coached by different coaches.

We really recognize how well they're playing the game defensively. They have some very good players at linebacker. They don't do a lot of things, but are very well coached on the defensive side of the ball.

We didn't execute the way we're going to have to the rest of the season. I've coached enough football to see that and now the guys have seen that.