Coached Quotations | Page 3

We've competed against each other for close to 30 years. We've not only coached against each other, but we're all good friends. It's just been fun being around those guys. They'll be missed.

We've coached some tremendous games. It's a cliche, but you can throw the records out the window when these teams play. Some years we've had the upper hand, but most years he's had the upper hand.

To say you coached a state championship team in probably one of the premier athletic events in the country, that is an achievement. To be part of that is more than any coach can ask for.

Weatherford has really gained from the first game of the year until the 13th game of the year. I coached against Joe when I was up at West Virginia and I saw those teams that dominate Eastern football. This team is as good as any of them and he hung in there with them.

The question we asked was: Were they better or worse off for having been coached to push?

This was a huge win for us. (Hazel Park) has beaten us every year I've coached here, the last five or six years I think.

When she came out for track we decided we were going to utilize her in as many events as we could, and my throws coach was like, 'Why don't we put her in the shot put?' - not really thinking that she was going to be that good at it, but maybe get some extra points in the district meet. We had no idea she was going to have the third-best throw at the regional meet. She threw it further than any girl I've ever coached at this school.

Every year I come to the state tournament and dream about what it would be like to be down there on the floor as a coach. There are a bunch of great coaches who have never coached a game on that floor. I think all the coaches are just glad they brought us along for the ride. These are great players making this happen.

But, I've never coached a player as versatile as Brandon.

Both teams played their hearts out. That's the way a rivalry is suppose to be played. It was a total team effort and one of the most exciting I've ever coached in.

Until I coached Detroit I never inherited a winning team, ... This is a work in progress but I do think some of the changes that have been made are really positive ones.

We were fortunate to win that many games because there were definitely some close ones along the way. They're very well coached and they played hard for 32 minutes. They deserved to win, but we had our chances at the end.

We've had a good number over the years (from the state of Indiana) that have contributed. Those three gentlemen from North Central were part of a special class in high school, and they were well coached by Jerry Little up there and we knew they were of the stock we wanted. Once they got here, they kept getting better and better.

This team played scrappy and hard-nosed all year long. We know how well Flanagan is coached and that their pitcher would be throwing in the zone. There was no give up, and the kids learned how to play hard.

This was the best team I've ever coached here at Incline.

This was by far the biggest win in 10 years. This was probably the most heart shown by any team I've coached in volleyball by far. The girls really stepped it up for this (match).

Wes is a youngster who is a gym rat. He loves to work out and is always working on his game, always working on his body. I think he's pushed himself as close to the max as anybody I've coached in a long, long time.

We weren't supposed to lose this game, but they're the No. 1 team in the country, they are very well coached and they did a great job. My hat goes off to those guys. They are excellent.

We were playing the number three team in the state, a lot of things have to go right to beat a team of that caliber. They came out and scored runs. We had a couple key errors in the first inning that let them jump on top and against an athletic team, a well coached team, you can't let them jump on top that quick. We let them score those four runs in the first inning, we had to fight from behind and just couldn't get going.

When a guy like that with that stature -- who has coached some of the greatest linebackers in the game -- for him to say that means a lot to me.

Vestal's a good football team. I thought Vestal is as good a coached team as we've seen in two years. They're excellent.

Torch and I go back a long way, ... We first got acquainted in the Central League when I was in Fort Worth and he was in San Antonio, and we both coached in the IHL. It's always good to have another voice for the players, especially one with as much experience as John has. He's been at hockey's highest level, and that means something to players.

We are very grateful to have come here and I am very proud of my team. Oklahoma played very good. They transition well and they are a really well coached team.

We think that we've got it simple enough to where they're comfortable that they can go out there and perform. They have to be mature enough to block out the gameday atmosphere and not worry about where they're at and go out there and do what they've been coached to do.

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

Brian Westbrook is truly deserving of this prestigious honor. The statistics he put up during his Villanova career are simply amazing. It is an honor for me to say that I coached not only a great player, but a great person in Brian Westbrook. He is truly a once in a lifetime player.

Billy coached as perfect a game as I've ever seen in a national championship game. It reminded me of 1987 when he carried an average Providence team to the final weekend.

Everybody that he has coached before has a piece of him inside.

Every conference game is tough. Year-after-year, these games take on similar personalities to the coaches. Bob Taylor of Northwood, he's coached hundreds of GLIAC games, and his team will be ready to play.

At my time at Hylton when I was assistant principal, I could see his intensity and the kids were well coached and well behaved and that caught my eyes then.

Coming back to Battle Creek for the finals is really a dream come true for me. I really hope to see a lot of old friends, wrestlers I've coached and family.

Durham School of the Arts played very well. They have a very well coached team that plays with a lot of heart. We didn't play with much emotion in singles, but all three doubles teams played well under pressure.

(Erickson) and coach Lubick coached together in Miami before, and that is part of the reason why I chose to come here,

Everything went against us early, but the kids did a great job. It was just back and forth. They had us down and out and we fought back. It was one of the greatest football games I have ever coached in.

Every year they are athletic and usually big up front. They are well coached (Troy Johnson) and they have a very good tradition.

There's no doubt there will be things that will be different from when we played them two years ago. We can run ourselves silly looking at Ohio State tape (when Mark Snyder coached there), this year's Marshall and looking at our game with them.

There's no fire-and-brimstone lecture (for tonight's game). It's a game we want to win because we want to win our 19th game, and we want to play in the postseason. Not because it's Rice. And that's no disrespect to Rice. I've never coached that way.

There's not too much to say. Alabama thoroughly beat us. They are a better team. They were coached better, they played better, and they looked like they will have a big season. They have a heck of a team.

There's nothing harder and more unpredictable than high school state tournaments. I don't know if I've ever seen a team persevere better. I know I've never coached one, but I don't know if I've ever seen one.

I've coached too many games against Rutgers to know they were not going to quit on us.

I've coached third base for 10 years and I don't second-guess my third-base coach, ... It was a tough decision. I didn't tell him to tell him to go. You have to ask the guy that sent him.

I've coached some real good players -- he's the best player I ever coached. He's classy as they come, as humble as they come. This guy just makes people around him better, and that's the key to having a successful team. He's the easiest person I've ever coached.

I've coached some good hockey players, but he's the best player I've ever coached. This guy, I always knew he was a good player, but I had no idea he was this good.

I've coached several great lines at Nevada Union and Placer. If this group reaches it's potential it could be one of the best lines I've coached. I haven't had a line like this with size, strength mixed with athletic ability. Usually any line has a weak link. This line doesn't.

I've coached in this tournament for four years now and this group seemed to come together better than any we've had.

I've coached hockey for 18 years at every level conceivable. This group has worked harder than any group I've coached.

I've coached him for four years, I've been here for nine years and I've been in coaching for 15 years and I've never been around a player who has worked harder than Matt. He plays every sport and in every game, every single practice, in the weight room, he is always trying to make himself better.

I've coached for three years, and the highest we'd had was 105 as a team. We had four girls break 50. It was far and away our best score of the season.

I've coached at Kennedy for a long time and I think we'll have to wait a while to watch a player have the type of season Rashad had here this year. He's special.

I've coached a lot of these girls since they were in sixth grade. So they know me. I know them. The transition was real easy.

I've coached a lot of great kids, but he's at the top of the list. He told me he wanted to get better. He's tried to do everything I've asked.

I've coached a lot of good quarterbacks and he has picked up the game as quickly as anybody. He knows where to go with the ball.

I've coached against Peter and he'll take numbers and get even in due time. You won't hear anything about it, until you see a body laid out on the ice and you'll wonder how that happened.

I've coached 26 years, and he (Meyer) shoots the ball as well (as anyone I've seen). We do shoot the ball fairly well. We're shooting free throws at like 85 percent. It wasn't like a fluke shooting 3s. We had to (shoot well) tonight to win the game.

They are a quality team. They're well coached and they have a lot of speed all over the field. Which is very difficult to deal with for 80 straight minutes.

They are a big, physical team that averages about 275 pounds on the offensive line, ... They are coached by former Cincinnati Bengal Bruce Kozerski so it should be a really interesting game.

The way he's coached us the first week of training camp and now in the preseason has been great. He has a lot of pressure because he's a rookie head coach, but we don't look at him like that. He's been on championship teams his whole life and he's going to bring that same intensity to us.

The same guy that recruited those guys also coached them and that shows. Those guys went from having a lot of potential to having a big impact and that doesn't happen by accident. It takes guidance.

I've worked with Kirby and Bo and know the qualities they possess. They both have coached at successful major college programs, allowing them to make a smooth transition to the NFL. They are excellent teachers and will be positive additions to our staff.

I've seen a lot of plays like that. I coached Magic Johnson.

I've spoken to you after 28 games, and there was one game I was disappointed and I said that. Everybody makes a big deal (about it), I coached him (Marbury) for the next two days just like I always coached him. He's done what I asked and tries to win the game.

I've played a lot of games in my life and coached a lot. I never felt so helpless on the sidelines, to watch a team that I thought was playing pretty good defense just continue to give up offensive rebounds.

It was the worst shooting game we had in the three years I've coached here.

The sky's the limit for her. I've never coached anyone who's been as prepared coming into a season as she is. So we'll have to be cautious as to how we train to make sure we don't overrun her. But if she's healthy she's one of the top five or six kids in the state.

I've never coached there and a lot of the kids have never been there. We took the kids (to OU Friday) and watched the games, just to give them a chance to see the place. We don't want them walking in (today) and be in awe of the place, so we tried to mentally prepare them for that.

I've never coached that way, where we've never had a set rotation, except my first year in San Antonio, we had a lot of injuries. That's really hurt the team. It hurts your progress. All of a sudden, we settled on David at the three and we have the three-guard rotation for the most part. It helps everybody, I think.

I've never coached or played a game that I've felt that way. Too many coaches and athletes tend to take that side, that it just isn't their day. I say make it your day.

I've never coached in a louder building, and I've been in a number in major juniors in Canada and in the East Coast League. The Coliseum is an uncomfortable place for other teams to play, and that's a huge advantage for us.

I've never coached a player in 34 years who prepares like he prepares. To the detail, to the consistency, to how much he stresses the importance of getting himself into his game mode.

I've never coached against a team with only three turnovers in one game in my life.

I've been around her, I've coached her. When she gets it going, you can't guard her.

Right now we have a lack of scoring or a void at the small forward position. Coach (Larry Brown) has stressed to me this is a person he's had that he's coached before and he can help us right now. We can secure our present and secure our future as well.

Randy can talk any way he wants in the locker room because he can back up what he says. Randy is very serious on the field. The game's important to him. He's a very focused guy. I love Randy because he wants to be coached hard. Sometimes I'll be all over him like a cheap suit and he begs for more. He's very thick skinned. He wants to be constructively criticized.

Our team was really a combination from a variety of different teams. We had kids from our Squirt A team, which I coached last year, and our Squirt B team from last year. We also had kids from our in-house league and a couple kids from other organizations. The core group came from Squirt A, and the rest came from the other places. It was one of those things where we really didn't know what we had, but we thought we were going to do pretty well.

The most remarkable thing of this whole football game, and I've been doing this a long time, I cannot remember the last time that I coached a game in the NFL when there was only one penalty. That was absolutely remarkable and unfortunately we had the one. But we'll get that worked out.

During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.

Coach Wilder coached so many great teams here (at The Pit). To be able to win here is extra special because of the kind of guy he was. He was great for high school basketball.

Coach Trestman has brought a lot of that NFL stuff to NC State and I think it's a great thing, ... You've got a guy who's been coaching for 20-some years in the league, where I want to be and where 100 percent of these guys want to be one day. Anytime you've got a guy who has coached the greatest players who have played this game and now knowing that he's going to be my coach, you can't be happier with that.

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Coming up as a player, I was coached as much by another player as I was by a coach, and sometimes it carried more weight. We're all in this together. When they share thoughts, I think it makes us all better.

Anthony has been the best overall player I have coached because he could do so much. He could defend, he could score, he could get his teammates open, and maybe more important, he innately knew when to do all three of those at the right time during the course of a game.

Are they a good team? Yes, of course they are. But there are a lot of good teams. They are a good team, they are well coached and they are capable. But if you put their resume side by side with Michigan, there is no comparison.

Anyone close to our program knows the kind of kid and person he is. He knew a lot of the things that happened were his fault. He said he would fix it, and he did. I'm not sure I ever coached a player that spent as much time improving the kind of person he is as he did improving his basketball game.

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

As a team they're coached very well, they play very well together, and we just have to be ready for them.

Autumn is the best player I have ever coached with her back to the goal.

As long as I've coached I cannot remember a group of guys who've had a more consistent intensity level from game to game. Where's that come from? It comes from (Deane). His intensity level carries over to the people, and they just jump on the bandwagon and go. I think that's the best thing he does for us.

As I told the team, we're not only looking for guys who can learn the system, we're also looking for guys who love to compete every day. The greatest players I've ever coached were guys who not only had talent, but wanted to win every drill they were in, and every play.

Aliens who have been smuggled into the U.S. have often been coached by members of the smuggling organization on what to say and what not to say.

You would have to say at this point he is the greatest coach who has ever coached in the history of Arena football.

You're going to be coached to be a pro. You're going to be pushed to where you may not even know you have this level. That's a big deal with me. You're not always going to like it, but you're going to be treated honestly and you're going to be treated fairly.

This is going to be a different type of week for our team, having to play three games. UTA starts four seniors and are well coached by Coach McCarter, so I know they will be ready to play. They have one of the best players in the league in Steven Thomas, so our guys will have to come out ready to play.

This is a storied program. You look at the history, you look at the players who played here, the players who coached here. There's a lot of history here, and there's a lot of pride for this university. One of the reasons I wanted to be here was because of the alumni.

This is as rare as you can possibly get when it comes to perfect games, to do it as a staff and with so few strikeouts. I've never coached a perfect game or been a part of one.

This is probably the smartest team I've ever coached in regard to penalties.

This is probably one of the strongest girls teams I've coached and they are capable of doing anything. It's the hardest working group of skiers I've seen and they are not afraid of the competition.

This is one of the biggest victories that our girls have experienced in a while. We're real young. I've only got one senior on the team, and it means a lot to them. They're a gutsy bunch of girls. We're short, but we're quick, and they would not be denied. I just feel grateful to have coached them. They're wonderful.

The way they controlled the tempo of the game ... once you did have the ball, you had to try to take advantage of it. They did a good job stopping us defensively in the first half. They just played better and coached better than we did.

This game was a lot of fun. It was nice to meet the kids you coached against. You always were able to see them, but it was fun to meet them and I had a great group of kids.