Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some coaches have different philosophies. But I'd much rather have to win two games than three games to win the sectional.

B. F. Skinner

Some of my coaches run. Some lift weights. I play basketball. It's what I do.

She has been improving a lot, ... The coaches have been working on her on talking more. She so big that she can intimidate the opposing team. Now if we can get her to be a little meaner on the court.

Vince Young

Sitting down with some of the coaches now, hearing the different things they've been saying about my throwing motion, is that there's nothing really wrong with it. The media, that's who keeps talking about the throwing motion. There's nothing wrong with the throwing motion.

Most players don't play for the coaches. If you are playing for coaches and their attention...you play to win and everything else falls in place.

Red Auerbach

Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, but he hasn't shown it. His teams have been ready-made.

Paul Holmgren

Mike is one of the outstanding young coaches in our game today. He's an excellent teacher of the game and has worked successfully with players at all levels of hockey.

Mike Holder

We regret the errors and took the necessary steps to notify the NCAA and correct the problem. None of our coaches did anything inappropriate.

We're gonna be in a lot of these types of games and (the team) knows it. The coaches know it and if we come up and get four or five ties this year, that means we're working hard.

Kent Hrbek

The only person who tells me what to do now is my wife. T.K. (manager Tom Kelly) can't tell me to bunt. The coaches can't tell me what to do. The only person I take orders from is my wife. She told me to cut the lawn today. So I cut the lawn.

We've shared it with coaches at this point ... some of it is still negotiable. I think it's a misconception that it's set in stone and we're going with it. I was on the phone all day (Tuesday) with maneuvers that may happen.

We have six people who are trying to get into that relay and, if the girls don't toe the line, I am sure the coaches will have something to say. They want a cohesive team out there on the track.

David Neeleman

Those wedgie seats, whatever they call them, those recliners, they're just not competitive anymore. The difference between those and a coach seat isn't that great to be able to warrant charging the amount. You need a little more space for a lie-flat, but not that much more.

George Vecsey

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.

So, generally the coaches will go out on the other nine, play four or five holes, then get back to collect the scorecards and do the scoring. It's sort of a perk we enjoy.

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Joshua Johnson

The past two games the coaches were trying to see who was going to be their go-to guys.

We did what we had to do. We were rolling kids in and out of there. Getting our defense healed up is going to be key this week. But I have confidence in our defensive coaches to get the job done.

We didn't play real well in the third period, they kind of took it to us. It left a real sour taste in our mouth. The coaches and players were pretty unhappy and used that as something to kind of get us a little extra fired up.

Bobby Bowden

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

Bobby Bowden

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

You look at our team, we monitor and adjust. After the first series, we regroup and find out what they're doing and our defensive coaches have done a good job.

We're a tight-knit group. The coaches weren't going to let us fall apart. We all worked so many hours. I don't think we would have been able to look each other in the face if we'd given up.

Steve Spurrier

We're lousy coaches if we can't play better than the other night. I probably did too much media myself. We need to concentrate on playing.

We are really happy to get a win and the week off really helped the kids prepare. The kids are improving with each game, and the coaches are very pleased with the performance.

Sean Payton

We are putting together a staff of dedicated coaches who know how to relate to players and are teachers.

We've been working on it all off- season. I've just got to find a way to get in there like the coaches always say. . . . Can't make no excuses.

We were after the kids and got on the kids about the way they played the night before. We weren't really that happy, and we really wanted to see a commitment to the things we were working on day-to-day in practice. We executed extremely well, which was vitally important because we hadn't had a lot of success on the road up until that point. We really totally controlled the game. It was a great effort. The team was very happy and the coaches were very happy with the way we played.

We work on special teams a lot. I get a little grief from some coaches thinking we work on it a little too much, but on nights like tonight, it paid off. That's a big part that we maybe overlooked in the early years of this program.

We want to make a decision so that the kids can get going with the new coaches and not skip a beat.

The department has invested large amounts of resources in facilities, scholarships and coaches in our Olympic sports. The inability to host NCAA competition would have an unbelievably negative effect on our programs.

Antawn Jamison

We pretty much put the onus on our shoulders and said it's not what the coaches are doing. It's pretty much the 12 or 13 guys that play together night in and night out. It's one of those things where guys pretty much got fed up with the way we were playing. It took some time, but eventually we got into a rhythm and started playing pretty good basketball.

Tim Howard

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.