Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coaching in college was fun because you travel so much, but my family and friends are here and it's good to move back.

Coaching at my alma mater has been a dream come true.

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Coming to Furman to play quarterback was just natural for me. But I knew I wanted to go into the coaching field.

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Sometimes you get conflicting reports, but everyone is on the same page. And it's starting to show that everybody is coaching the same thing. You just have to listen to all the information and stick to the plan.

(Rosetta) started the same year at the Tribune as I did coaching in 1964. ... Rosetta is the one that called me. He said, 'Ted, you will never guess what.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Finally, way, way, way overdue, you've been inducted into the Hall of Honor, and I get to escort you.' He was as tickled as I was.

Ron McBride is more like my father than a father-in-law, ... Pat would say the same thing. He has influenced my style of coaching more than any other person; the way he gets guys to play hard and cultivates good, long relationships.

Right now we're still trying to search for that win. It doesn't get any easier. ... It's all in our control. We're the ones playing. All the coaching staff can do is continue to create strategies and game plans for us to go out and execute. We have to play the game.

Randy would do a great job, he's ready to be a head coach. I don't think he has a weakness. He just needs the opportunity. None of us had head coaching experience until we got our first chance.

Really, I could not find any negatives. We play at Lincoln Financial Field, we?re moving into the MAC, we just got a three-year contract with Penn State and the coaching staff is great. Everything about it was amazing.

At the time, the coaching staff had to be saying to each other, 'this is our game to win.'

Connor meant the world to our team. He was a great leader, one of the better leaders I've been around because he was loyal to the coaching staff, he was loyal to his players. He just worked extremely hard.

John Fox

Continuity is critical in this game when you've got that many people in what I consider the ultimate of team games. Continuity is critical whether it be on your football team or on your coaching staff.

Consistency and quality of coaching has been a big part of our success.

Dowling will get better. I know their coaching staff. They know how to win and how to prepare their kids.

A big part of his coaching is to scout teams and to develop some kind of game plan, a defensive game plan as well as an offensive game plan.

Ken Hitchcock

About 25 percent of your job is coaching the team on the ice and about 75 percent of your job is all of the stuff that happens off the ice, whether it be preparation or putting out fires. I think he's going in with his eyes wide open about that.

It's just one of those things he's got to be on top of. We've got to do a good job of coaching him where he can get back on the field. He's good enough to play in this league, there's no doubt.

John Calipari

This has been an unbelievable year, no matter what happens. I did a better job of coaching last year than this year. What we went through last year, we can laugh, but I will not watch a tape from last year.

Jay Wright

They take the coaching out of your hands. It's unbelievable to have two guys out there who make the right decision every single time.

Jay Wright

They take the coaching out of your hands. I never thought I would get another player like Speedy Claxton and I got two of them. I'm a lucky man.

It's truly been a tremendous ride and I'm not ready to let go of it just yet. Coaching is something you have to love to do. You like to see kids succeed on the field but what they do in life is what's most important. To hear all the success stories, that's what makes a coach, a good one, the proudest.

Jahangir Khan

It's very difficult to do something without the support of the association. That was the reason why I did not get involved in coaching in Pakistan.

It's not spit out by some computer. I have objective numbers like that, but my pencil is my coaching tool.

Daniel Alfredsson

It's not something that in this dressing room is on our mind. I totally understand the media making a big deal out of this, but the coaching staff is going to handle this the right way, I have no doubt about that at all.

Marty Schottenheimer

It's not physical issues, it's discipline issues in our coverage, and it's not where it needs to be, quite frankly. We're not getting people where they need to be on a consistent basis. My sense is that we've got to do a better job of coaching them, and they've got do a better job of understanding exactly what it is we're putting forward.

For me, it's the opportunity to see my kids grow up. I knew that was going to be very difficult with any type of coaching job.

It's obviously very rewarding, very exciting. All the kids are excited. The coaching staff is excited. There's a murmur in the school now. People in the school are talking more about it. It's great. It's fantastic.

It's the job of the coaching staff to turn that into a positive. We're in this for the long run. This isn't a sprint; it's a marathon.

Jerry Colangelo

This is the first standing USA Men's Senior National Team and the 23 players selected will give us everything we need to form a great USA team. We feel we have versatility, shooters, size, quickness, role players and defensive stoppers. In making the player selections we took into consideration the style of play anticipated to be used by the coaching staff.

This is not a year that we should take a mulligan on from blame, from the coaching perspective, from the team-building perspective. This is not a year of injuries. It's a year where we could have, despite the injuries, still been in the playoff hunt.

Larry Brown

This is not an individual sport. Everywhere I went it's about team. I've been coaching the same way my whole life. I never had a problem getting people to understand.