Famous Quotes & Sayings

Levon Kendall

I think the sky's the limit for this team. We have lots of talent. We're really deep. Dixon has done a really good coaching job. He's gotten us to work on our weaknesses. We're getting better and better, progressing each game.

Jeff Long

Jamie has proven he was the right person for our head coaching position three years ago and continues to be the right person today.

I think as a coaching staff, we worked our tails off this year. We wanted to make sure we didn't have another 7-15 season for these kids. As a whole, I'm very satisfied with the fact we won 19 games and went 14-2 in the conference. A coach is never 100 percent satisfied, but I feel good about the season.

I think we all felt a little bitter. When that announcement was made, every one of us had a pit in our stomach. Hopefully, the team used that as motivation throughout the summer. I know the coaching staff used it as motivation during the summer - that we didn't want to be back in the (WNIT).

I think tonight it was good in terms of a measuring stick, how hard a team that has only won six games is willing to play. I'm just really kind of going to miss four kids that played very hard all year with little success in terms of wins and losses. It was a joy coaching them.

Gabe Norwood

I think that's just me, the team and the coaching staff having so much fun. It's a once in a lifetime thing, so there's no point in getting stressed.

I think that says a lot for our coaching staff and the players we have here.

Troy Smith

I think it's being more comfortable within the offense, the guys starting to be comfortable with me and also the coaching staff. With more film study you're able to see more guys, not just through tunnel vision like I had early in the season.

I thought we were in control of the game until we ran out of bodies. I've been coaching for 32 years, and I've never had a better defensive team than this.

I thought he did a good job in Phoenix. I thought at the time he was destined to be coaching in the league for a long time.

I think, when you don't score on the five-on-threes, from the coaching standpoint, you really feel haunted.

Will Poole

Players love the style of play we play here. Freshmen get an opportunity to come in and play. The coaching staff is just great -- they're jumping around, they're in your face. And you're in L.A. -- who wouldn't want to come to L.A.?

Recruiting and coaching pitching are the two things I've done since I started coaching in 1996,

Paula's one of the most kind-hearted people I've ever met, and she will be greatly missed in the coaching field.

Our main concern at this time is for Mary's health. It will be up to her doctors to determine when she will be able to resume her coaching duties.

Peter Budaj

It is great when the coaching staff and the organization has the faith in you that you can get the job done. What I'm doing right now is working hard, and playing good hockey.

I was ecstatic come draft night just to hear my name called. And now, after playing in the summer league and getting to know some of the guys and being able to play under the coaching staff and seeing the great things that are going on here in this organization, I'm even more excited to put my name on the dotted line.

I thought we did a great job defensively. We really made it difficult for UCF to get open looks. I've said that I've been coaching for 32 years and I've had some great defensive teams, but I've never had a team that was better defensively than this team.

I think we noticed it as a coaching staff, and the players realized we needed the role players to do their job in order to be successful. I don't know if outsiders realized how truly valuable they were, but we did.

Tom Hall

I thought our defense would be a little better this year, ... We probably need some better coaching to get them to where I think they should be. But the offense made some progress last week. Especially (quarterback) Jared Williams.

Tom Renney

I think everyone feels honored to be part of it. Jaromir comes to work every day and displays what you could only hope for in a player like that, with his work habits and the way he treats his teammates and the respect he shows the organization and the coaching staff.

I saw a lot of teaching and coaching going on by my veterans and a lot of quick learning by my freshmen.

Bo Ryan

I see in him a young man that's always wanted to be a Badger, works hard, listens, makes the other guys better in practice, just does all the things a coaching staff likes to see a player do.

B. F. Skinner

I say it's a reflection not just on me but the whole program. It's something the whole program should be proud of because not just one person can do it. You have to have the parents, the coaching staff, the students and the support from the community and I really think we are starting to get that.

People are going to say what they are going to say. Hopefully, we will keep playing hard and he will keep coaching and we'll continue to win. Hopefully, at the end of the season, nothing will be wrong and everybody will come back.

Bill Romanowski

For two straight weeks, all we talked about was how good the Packers' offense was, how tough their defense was, how outstanding their coaching was. Every clich in the book, we used. Every time I uttered another compliment about the Packers to the press, I wanted to puke.

Paul Hewitt

For this entire streak, for some reason or another, we just can't some out of the locker room with the type of energy we need. As I told the guys, it's obviously something we're doing as a coaching staff. We just can't seem to get things going at the start of the second half.

Alan Shearer

Glenn is the one who gets us up. He is the one who is preparing the team, who is coaching us and who is talking to us before and after games. He deserves all the credit and we now have something to go for for the rest of the season. I can only hope we can repay him and all the supporters.

For me to sit there and tell that the tip of the nose of the football is way up too high to (punter) David Wooldridge, that took him coaching me to learn how to do that,

Jim Gibbons

When you combine the potential coaching opportunities out there and Pollard being decisive, I think that had a big part in it.

The announcement has been made now to end the ongoing speculation in regard to the coaching position next year.

That's the one thing I wanted that I left out of my coaching career. I never won a state title. I was fortunate to be down there several times, but we never won it. We probably should have a couple times, but we missed out.

I was really happy with those five guys. It may have been a little coaching frustration, but I'm very comfortable with those guys.