Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Augustine

That's fine. It's easy for us. We watch the same film and maybe the (last) game to see what we did right and wrong. The scouting report is the same. So it's easier on the coaches and easier on us.

We have a couple more who if we were voting today would probably get in, ... and I'll match the strength of our coaches with any league in the country.

Jay Cutler

This team has stuck together. We're a close-knit family. The coaches have been great, and things are going our way right now.

Kelvin Sampson

This team desperately needs leadership. Coaches can fuel practice, but come game time, you've got to have kids that are more vocal, with more fire.

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.

Al Horford

It would be great for (Donovan), our program and for the University of Florida to win a national championship. Our coaches have worked so hard, and we really want to give them this win.

Joe Girardi

It would have been a great opportunity. I just wish the timing was different. I don't think major league coaches can be part of this tournament because it could last the whole month of March, when we're in spring training.

Things are a lot more organized this year. The players have great living conditions and have plenty to eat and they are getting paid. The owners are doing their job. But we as coaches and players have to do our job now.

Norm Chow

There will be some things that are different that all college coaches go through when they get to the NFL. Spurrier comes to mind, and some of the adjustments he was forced to make and was reluctant to make at various times,'' Aikman said.

The safety of the visiting coaches and team, as well as the game officials and fans, is of the utmost concern.

Scott Campbell

The scouts have been out on the road all fall evaluating players, so the combine is the next step and it's really the first opportunity for the coaches to get involved and focus in on the players.

(The school) did a great job recruiting, and he's happy with his decision. What makes a difference is he is a great kid and a good student, and coaches are looking for the combination.

I've thought about it a lot, and talked with my coaches and prayed about it a lot, and pretty much come to the decision that I'm going to probably leave.

I've watched these young coaches come in here and it got me excited again. They remind me of how I used to feel. Maybe these past two years away from coaching is what I needed. I feel energized again.

John Brady

I've tried to eliminate that from my thought process. But I got it. Trust me. I got it from so many people. I got it. I know it was disappointing to us as coaches and to our players and extremely disappointing to our fans.

Vince Young

I've sat down with coaches now, and they say nothing is wrong with the throwing motion. Don't fix what's already fixed. I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing all my life.

I've pretty much stayed on him. I talk to him every day and sometimes on the phone and make sure his head is on right and that he's out here to do what he's supposed to do. He's done very well. He's kept himself out of trouble and he's shown these coaches he's ready to play.

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.

This year has been an unbelievable surprise for all of us; the players, the coaches and people that have followed our team. Now we are hot and playing very well. It is an interesting team because we have some core leaders and now late in the year a whole host of players are starting to be difference-makers.

When I was running in high school, it was more difficult to locate college coaches, hard for high school coaches to get your name out, so to speak,

Tony would run our coaches out of there to get back to their families when it was getting too late in the night.

Tony Lewis is the most underrated football player out there. Once college coaches find out about Tony, he'll get serious looks from colleges. He's a wonderful young man.

We've been slow coming out of the gate, so it was important to get off to a strong start like that. Credit has to be given to the entire team. Our defensive coaches put together a great game plan and the players executed it.

We tried to get him four years ago. He wanted to come, but the coaches didn't want him. We couldn't get him past the coaches. So he goes to New England and wins three Super Bowls.

We just try and make plays. The coaches do a good job of mixing it up. A lot of times the coverage dictates it. I think 'Jack' is always going to be the primary guy, he deserves that.

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