Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've coached at Kennedy for a long time and I think we'll have to wait a while to watch a player have the type of season Rashad had here this year. He's special.

I've coached a lot of these girls since they were in sixth grade. So they know me. I know them. The transition was real easy.

Larry Brown

I've coached a lot of great kids, but he's at the top of the list. He told me he wanted to get better. He's tried to do everything I've asked.

I've coached a lot of good quarterbacks and he has picked up the game as quickly as anybody. He knows where to go with the ball.

They are a quality team. They're well coached and they have a lot of speed all over the field. Which is very difficult to deal with for 80 straight minutes.

Mark Richt

The same guy that recruited those guys also coached them and that shows. Those guys went from having a lot of potential to having a big impact and that doesn't happen by accident. It takes guidance.

We weren't supposed to lose this game, but they're the No. 1 team in the country, they are very well coached and they did a great job. My hat goes off to those guys. They are excellent.

When a guy like that with that stature -- who has coached some of the greatest linebackers in the game -- for him to say that means a lot to me.

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.

Geno Auriemma

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

Ben Howland

He's the only player I've ever coached where I threaten him if he goes 100 percent.

He's the most skilled player I've coached in 25 years.

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.

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

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.

Pat Summitt

Sylvia and I go back 32 years to when we were in grad school at Tennessee and she coached my junior varsity team. I value her as a dear friend in this profession. When you've been in it this long, you make a lot of people mad.

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.

Steve Spurrier

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

John Calipari

That's quite a somber locker room in there. They had visions of winning this whole thing. It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody.

That's the fastest time of any runner I've ever coached down in Danville.

That's the fastest team I've ever coached against. They might eventually be ranked No. 1. I didn't think the game was won by 17 points; I thought it was closer. I think that if we could have made some free throws that we could have turned the corner.

That looked like volleyball. It's exciting when everyone executes what you've coached them in practice.

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.

Rich Rodriguez

As I told the team, we're not only looking for guys who can learn the system, we're also looking for guys who love to compete every day. The greatest players I've ever coached were guys who not only had talent, but wanted to win every drill they were in, and every play.

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.

Everybody that he has coached before has a piece of him inside.

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 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,