Famous Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing is that they have a really good coaching staff that has been very persistent in their thorough recruiting of those guys.

Brian Cashman

So we're not having contract-extension negotiations with Tom Gordon, Hideki Matsui or Bernie Williams, or any of the coaching staff, or myself. The focus is where it needs to be, which is on that field.

During the last five games, we've limited teams to shooting a combined 38 percent. We're most happy as a coaching staff with the way we have been playing at the defensive end.

The team was already together. They had been practicing and everything else, and I think that team was like 16-1 or something. It wasn't my doing. I inherited a good team. But from that point on, I just started coaching and managing and working.

O. Henry

The team really works hard, everyone does. It's a great group of kids, and having a winning record is better than going 0-16 like we did last year, so it really shows how far we've come in one year. It's important to us. Our coaching is awesome, and how we play, it's just real hard work.

Flip Saunders

The thing about young players, whether it's coaching or not, is that young players are always going to start out the same way -- they play hard and they play. That's who they are. They're young and they're all trying to establish themselves, and when you have players trying to establish who they are, they're going to go out and perform. Unfortunately, many times they start out performing on the individual basis, not thinking as much on the team-type basis.

I've never been prouder in the two years I've been coaching these guys.

Tom Izzo

Sometimes you look like, 'Who's coaching that team?' because you're not doing anything on the post guy. But when you have four three-point shooters that are shooting 50 percent or better, it's hard to double down on them. They're a tough team to beat. They have so many weapons.

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.

I've only been coaching 10 years total, but I know you don't get a group like this very often.

It was a little odd coming back and not coaching for the school I'd enjoyed for so many years. This place fit me like a glove.

The six seed is fine with me. Any seed would have been fine with me. Just to be in the NCAA Tournament with this coaching staff and the four other seniors and myself, that's where I want to be.

These little mistakes we're making are starting to drive the coaching staff crazy. With a young team, we just need to focus on not making those mistakes in the future.

Nigel Worthington

That's not a problem. We can all be managers and coaches. I make decisions as I and my coaching staff see it - it's as simple as that.

This was my first time back coaching in Rankin County and I know so many people down here, so I was hoping we would have a good showing. I hope we can keep it up the next two days.

This team sort of rides my attitude, and if I'm ornery, they get nervous, and if I get frustrated, they get frustrated. So I was very focused tonight on just playing this game together and having fun. I didn't do any wonderful coaching other than letting my team play.

This team has worked so hard all season. This says a lot for these kids. I love coaching a team like this.

This team had to go through so much the last two weeks with the injuries, and then they won their first-ever NCAA tournament game Friday. I love coaching this team so much, it just wasn't our night. But we took another step this year.

We finished at the right time. Ivan punched it in and it was great. I'm so excited. It's fun coaching these guys.

We got a little lucky, and that's the only reason we're playing Friday. Yorkville played great. I told the guys that I've been coaching for 20 years and there's only one game I remember that was a blowout.

The whole year has been really good. The team is relatively young, and I have a really good freshman in Quinton Ryman. He's really charismatic, a very good kid and one of the hardest workers on the team. The whole coaching staff is pleased with him.

Barry Alvarez

They all recruit hard, they play solid football, they all have a good plan. It's not just someone trying to out-formation you, they know what it's all about. I think the coaching in this league is very strong.

These are two league games that are very crucial games for us to win. They have to head in with confidence, but at the same time respecting that Hayden is coming in looking for revenge. The coaching staff is letting these girls now this will be a tough game.

These are some of the hardest working kids I've ever seen. Casey, Sean Michael and Dean have all led the way. It's been very exciting so far. One thing that has also been great is the coaching staff. Everyone is full of energy, and that's important to the kids.

This year has been a lot tougher than last year. This is probably one of the toughest coaching jobs I've ever had. You're getting everybody's No. 1; there's no hiding. Trying to repeat is the toughest thing.

Charlie Jones

What they do such a good job of is coaching effort,

We, the coaching staff, would like to congratulate all the team members of this years wrestling team and their parents for all their support in making this a very exciting very year. Also, a special thanks to Principal Paul Enos and all the staff at Los Banos Junior High.

Guus Hiddink

We (the coaching staff) make the decision - I'd like to talk to my group of technical people and we make the in-principle decision,

Wes Walz

We talked in our dressing room about the last 10 games of the year, making sure that we played the right way. Obviously the coaching staff and management are going to remember the last 10 games before they're going to remember the first 10 games, so we have a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride, contracts and different things.

There's no way that I would have come back to coaching if I didn't want to win, because winning is a big part of my personality, regardless of what I do.

There's not much coaching other than substitutions and timeouts. It will be run and gun.

I spent a lot of time evaluating each individual's traits because I feel that not only are the players a team, but we as a coaching staff are also a team.

I've been coaching for 26 years, and this performance is one of the greatest I've ever seen.