John Chaney Good Quotations

We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime.

Our players on the outside, when they make baskets, it answers a lot of questions for us. When we don't make baskets, we're not a good team at all.

The trend is we don't have a good team. They're a ranked team. They're supposed to beat us.

(George Washington) is a talented ball club that plays very good defense. They come in fresh. They come in motivated. They love to break and get easy baskets, and we're going to have to form a cluster to rebound the ball.

I'm 73, ... I'll stay as long as my health is good and that's just the truth.

I think our talent is as good as anybody's in the league.

This is not a good team. It's fool's gold with our shooting. What happens when they don't shoot well? You have to have somebody to carry the day. This is just not a good team, not at all.

It's amazing to me that we don't seem to learn lessons when mistakes are made. ... Words that are spoken are simply lies and very few of us will call it like it is. ... Many of our leaders fail us. They find themselves saying things to make people feel good and many people fall for it.

We're not as good a team as Villanova. No way.

How am I going to be when the bell rings for the following season? I don't care how old you are, that's always going to be something that's there in your head and in your heart. As long as you know that you're leaving the program in good hands, you can walk away and not have ill feelings.