Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's something I go to confession about. But I was a coach. I coached African-American kids. There's no way I think any less of people because of their skin color.

Del Harris

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who doesn't have a ring. My key point is that none of the teams he's coached were good enough to win the whole thing. But did he get the most out of them that you could? Yes.

Jim Johnson

I've had a lot of thrills in coaching. I've coached a lot of wonderful kids. But I've never experienced such a thrill.

Urban Meyer

They're as talented a team as any I've ever coached against.

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 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.

If you're on offense, you're expected to play. When your number is called, you've got to do what we've been coached to do.

If you're expecting him to come in and be a ready-made player, I don't think so. The potential to be special is there, but he's just not there now. He's just not very physically strong right now. He really hasn't been coached a whole lot.

In the four years I've done it, I've coached 21 Division I players. Everything I do, I'm preparing myself to be a college coach.

Intense is the right word. You don't get days off with him. He's definitely a dictator. If you mess up in a game he's in your face about it. The older guys handle it a lot better. I imagine he's an intimidating guy for a 14-year-old who has never been coached like that. We got a guy who is dedicated to making you a better player. And that's never happened here.

Greg Schiano

If you start saying, 'We have to do this, this year, and we have to do that next year,' that's when you get in trouble. I've never coached like that and I'm never going to coach like that. I'm blessed. My job is my hobby. I'm never going to let it get to where I start coaching tight. That's not me.

I can't tell you the feeling of seeing a guy you coached run out and play in a big game like that. For a 35-year-old man, he's doing pretty good.

Joe Paterno

I don't think there's any football player who's done more to rejuvenate a squad than Michael Robinson has done. Michael Robinson is one of the greatest football players I've ever coached and I've coached a couple of pretty good ones.

Chad Pennington

I feel comfortable and confident enough to where we can go in and execute the offense the way I'm coached to do,

I'll always remember this win. It was an important (area) game for us, but seeing all the guys I coached through the years - that's when it hit me.

I haven't heard anything about it. But who wouldn't want to be coached by a legend?

He's the fastest player I've ever coached and will be the most recruited player. He not only can turn a corner, but he has great vision and just a general knack for the game.

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

I don't know if I've ever coached in a game with four turnovers.

It was back and forth, and McDowell is a well-coached team, coached by a legend. It was special. It was senior night. There were times when it was back and forth, and the girls just kept believing. They were not going to be denied.

It was probably one of the top five most physical games I've ever coached in.

I want them to be coached so that they can be anything they want to be. And stay focused.

It will be tough. This is the first group of girls I've coached for four years here. I had hoped it would be better this season. This group has and will leave its mark for years to come.

Mike Shanahan

They controlled the tempo of the game. They just played better and coached better than we did.

Bob Thomason

They hit a lot of tough shots. You've got to give them credit for making the shots they had to. I don't know if I've ever coached a game where a team shot 70 percent in the second half and we still won.

It's the first time I've ever coached a player who every year qualified for states. It's even more pleasing that it's a female who qualified on her own merits.

Buddy Bell

It just didn't make any sense to me. I've never played, managed or coached a game like that. To see a big league game like that is unheard of. I've never seen anything like that. I hope I don't see it again.

Billy Gillispie

Got a good whipping tonight. They played harder than us. They played much, much, much smarter than us. ... They executed, played with discipline, they played hard, they got to the basket, they did what they were coached to do. They have good players, and I can see why they are getting better in a hurry.

I'm pretty proud about what our guys did tonight. We played a good team that's coached by a good coach.

You turned on the film and you just got sick from the lack of effort. You had some guys here that couldn't be coached last year, and they're not here now.

Vestal's a good football team. I thought Vestal is as good a coached team as we've seen in two years. They're excellent.

Andrew Luck

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

Steve Spurrier

It's been three years since I coached (Florida), ... This is my team now.