Famous Quotes & Sayings

I told him that 3 1/2 years with one franchise is pretty good in today's world. Coaches tend to get fired as soon as teams lose a few games.

I told our coaches in the huddle to put me on him and I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. There was no way I could let him get another one.

Ike Taylor

It's an honor that the coaches have that kind of confidence in me.

It's a really nice honor when you consider it's a national award. It makes you think back over the years, about the number of coaches and student-athletes you've been involved with. It's all about the journey and memories -- all the great people you've been around.

Kelvin Sampson

I truly love Oklahoma, but Indiana is a program that all coaches hope to coach at one day. Once they offered, it was just one of those programs that I couldn't turn down.

It's a great win. We're happy to be 2-0. But I don't want our kids to think that we as coaches or them as players can be satisfied. We just have to play with a sense of urgency.

It's a great thing for us. The first time we played BYU, the coaches put us through a whole week of preparation.

It's a hard process. But we go with what the coaches have seen over the course of two days and eight or nine games. They give us input on whom they think has played the best.

Mike Hankwitz

Even though it's a difficult time, and our coaches realize that, we've always been about doing the right thing by our players anyway.

Between the bull-riding and the two-stepping, our coaches showed their lack of talent.

Everybody up here in the wrestling room and the coaches especially for putting us through all this conditioning and making us work for our goal.

Billy Donovan

Every minute of it. I'm thrilled, I really am. Hopefully with the job he's done, it will bode well for (assistants) Anthony Grant and Donnie Jones and other coaches who have been here.

Every day I pray for one of my teammates to win a medal. But I think there is more pressure on the officials and coaches than on me. The only thing I need to do is skate my best.

As I started doing really well, some college coaches started to notice me. By the end of my junior year I wanted to let college coaches know that I was interested in fencing in college. Penn was the perfect fit for me.

The most successful coaches on any level teach the fundamentals.

The most overwhelming response we've had has been from the college coaches because they will be in a feeding frenzy. The Final Four will be over. Signing day is over. Now they will be focusing on who they can sign in the fall of 2006.

The most important thing is who you hire on your staff, ... You have to hire people who are solid coaches in the NFL. Many college coaches don't know NFL people.

So when you get about 20 coaches most of whom have done very well together, it is like a reunion.

We are going to have national coaches and a national reporting line that represents the national philosophy.

We had six possessions in the second half, but we couldn't get any points. Last year, we had so many seniors who had played as juniors. This time we only have six kids who played last year. As coaches we have to keep that in mind and be happy with seeing improvement each game.

We had our share of success at St. John's, but you have got to have players, too. And I've had the good fortune to have had other good coaches to learn from.

Marcus Vick

We went into halftime and the coaches made a lot of great adjustments. They called the right plays and we just went out in the second half and tried to make it happen.

Brett's a very heady player. He does the little things and coaches take notice.

Drury feels like a big family. I really like the coaches and I already know a lot of the players.

Evans plays defense well for a freshman and that comes from being well-coached. He's a coaches kid, so he should be good on defense. But all of their players play good defense.

A.J. Hawk

(Even) if I'd have won every award, it doesn't mean anything to these coaches (and) these players in the league.

Five coaches in six years, there's been no stability here. I've got a point guard who's had a different head coach every year. There's some trust, but it's not as deeply established as a coach who's been here three years.

Jeff Long

Fans worried about this program serving as a steppingstone for coaches need not think that any more. This proves it's different than it used to be. I don't think it's a steppingstone anymore.

There's probably not many coaches in the state who can say their team has not given up a regulation goal at this point. That's a long time in a soccer game.

There's pluses and minuses to it. It all depends on how well he can adapt. Obviously, the coaches he surrounds himself with will have a lot to do with it.

There's going to be hard, hard decisions for our coaches and Ted and his staff.

Steve Alford

There's no question I don't think it's a very good thing when coaches or players get booed by the home crowd. That's never something that's positive.

There's not a lick of 'I' in the kid. He's one of those guys that coaches just love, and wherever he goes, they'll find that out in a hurry.