Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

At these showcase tournaments, there might be 200 colleges in attendance. And it's not just for the star players. There are coaches from NAIA to Division I.

(Dexter) was the first one to get his letter to Ole Miss. The coaches said he'd also be the first one to get the ball.

Diplomatic skills are required to work with an owner like Vladimir, but I think there will be a queue of top-class coaches coming forward now.

Currently a lot of schools and coaches have their own safety rules, but they're not the same as another school down the road and may not be as stringent.

Currently, a lot of coaches are not truly trained in coaching cheerleading. They are just teachers that take on the responsibility and don't know what they're doing.

Crowd control in all of our sports is an issue that our schools take seriously and is discussed on an ongoing basis. The safety of players, coaches and fans must always be the primary concern of any sporting event.

Dave Price

We should do something called 'Dancing With the Anchors' ... get dance coaches to work with us ... wouldn't that be hilarious?

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.

We're very pleased -- thrilled. It's just an indication of what we value as an institution. It's a real credit to our coaches who work hard in all sports to go out and identify kids who are good student-athletes. And it's obviously a testament to kids who work hard to do well in sports and in the classroom.

Flip Saunders

Very much so. It's something as coaches that we're not used to. You don't really go through that very much. I guess I would liken it to maybe the last week of the exhibition season when you're trying to get ready for the regular season. You want to improve and you want to keep sharp, you want to give people opportunities, you want to be competitive and you still want to win.

You give a lot of credit to our coaches because they had a great game plan. We just wanted to put it down their throats, and that's what we did.

Jay Wright

You feel like they take coaching out of your hands. You feel like they're coaches on the court. They're going to make the right decisions and if they get fouled, they're going to make their shots.

Rick Pitino

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.

Bubba Franks

To me it was more than a walk-through. I had to do a little more conditioning after practice to show the coaches I was in shape, which was no problem for me. I kind of took this as a mini-practice because everyone else was walking through (plays) and I'm the only guy running routes. It was fun. It was exciting to be back.

We focused on him in the scouting report and in practice. We just didn't come out and do a good job like we should have by listening to the coaches about making him dribble and take it to the basket.

John Chaney

We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime.

We kind of started to panic there and the coaches told us to slow down and just shoot the ball.

We kind of made it a point -- the coaches did in the meetings. We've got to get ugly goals and start driving the net. I thought we did a lot better job of driving to the net. Everybody did it tonight.

You hear coaches talk about players being in the doghouse. It's not one of those things. It's a kid who made a mistake. She served her time and she's learned from it.

You hear coaches say it all the time, you can't replace a person of that level... but you hope you can get somebody who can come in and fill that void.

You have coaches trusting players and players trusting coaches, ... Donovan's one of the toughest competitors I've ever been around, maybe the toughest.

You had a lot of dinosaurs as far as coaches in the conference. New coaches have really invigorated the conference.

This year, he will lead, because a lot of these coaches and myself, there's no way we could know all (the rookies). There's no way. There's only so much we can do.