Coached Quotations

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.

God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

The other thing is that they promoted from within. So there are a lot of people who have been affiliated with this program, who have coached here and are coaching here, who are extremely capable. So we'll see what happens.

The people who now vote in the polls coaches and writers do not have enough time to watch a lot of football. We wanted to take advantage of all this experience and expertise we have in these great former coaches. Who better to judge teams than the people who have coached the game?

When it comes right down to it I coached a horrible game. I started the wrong lineup, I made the wrong substitutions and I called the wrong plays.

We respect New Zealand hugely. They are a great team, they've got great players. They are superbly coached and they've got a great record.

We're going to have to play better than we did tonight. Jackson, they looked probably better than anybody in the tournament out there tonight. I coached under (Jackson coach) Darrin (Scott) at Notre Dame. I know how good of a coach he is, how well he prepares and so hopefully my boys can outplay his boys. That's what it's going to come down to.

We knew they may have a little trouble because of the lack of a background in here. Our girls have played here, obviously, and I've coached here before quite a few times. Perimeter shooting teams tend to struggle in here.

With this team, the way we've been coached and brought up, we just want more.

Wow, it's hard to imagine coaching 1,000 games, but that does mean I have been in it for a long time. It is very special to have coached so many games and to have been blessed to do so.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

We're playing a very good fundamentally coached team. They play man-to-man defense and they run up and down the floor.

We know we are heading to Baton Rouge and they are the No. 5 team in the state. We will have to be ready to play. We are very familiar with them because we play them every year. They are well coached and very experienced. We are excited about moving on in the playoffs to take our shot at them.

Let's just say I was Coach T's focal point, ... He told me later, 'yeah, you made one nice play. But you didn't do what I coached you to do. '

Let's see someone in charge with feeling for the game and let's make sure England are coached by an Englishman.

Lee has some of the best court presence I've ever seen. He passes better than any big man I've coached against.

Seven hundred twenty-four wins, Hall of Fame, four decades, one of the best coaches that has ever coached the game of basketball, and he'll be remembered more for the type of person he was than the coach he was. I think that speaks volumes about Coach.

She's the most competitive player I've ever coached or played with. And I consider myself very competitive.

She started out as my coach, became my friend and then we coached together. What I take away from her the most was she taught us all how to persevere. She could have passed away a long time ago, but she battled. It is sad to lose a friend and someone who was a mentor, but she's in a better place and not suffering anymore.

She was so poised. She worked harder than anyone I've coached over the past few years. She really set the tone for our whole team.

She was an administrator. She probably taught a class. She drove the bus. She coached the team. I remember she told me when she became head coach at Stephen F. Austin she was making $6,500 a year and she thought she'd hit the lottery.

She went to the doctor today, and he said it was two weeks before she could start jogging. Alicia and Sara are really close to my heart because I've coached them since the sixth grade. I was their grade school coach.

She's a very mature athlete. When I coached her she was one of the leaders on the team. She's encouraging and impacts the players around her. She'll never give up. That's what you need out of a defensive player.

She's one in a million. I've coached her three years, and there's nothing she can't do.

She's coached at a very young age at a very high level with a lot of pressure from Day 1. It's a tremendous, tremendous place to be in and to be able to dominate a sport that long and be able to do something like that, it's amazing to me.

Oh, yeah, you wanted this game, man. Coach Brown coached us the last two years, and he got a new team, so we definitely wanted to come out and make a statement.

Shoot, when I was in Seattle, in our 15 spring practices when I coached at Washington, 13 of them were like this. So I just I felt like I was back at home.

She had already played in the league a couple years before I coached her, so she had already proven that she was worthy of being in the league. And she's been to the Final Four twice. She knows how to win.

She's a great player, as good as I've ever seen and coached against.

She's a great competitor on the mound. She kept us off balance. This is the best I've seen her in four years I've coached against her.

Missouri is a very well coached team and deserving of their ranking. They have an experienced team, returning many of their top lettermen from last season. In 2005, they were one catch away from a Super Regional, so this weekend will be a great test for our guys.

Missing Justin's senior year was something that was hard for me. I have coached Justin since he was a boy. ... When I coach an athlete for so long, I just think of him as one of my kids.

Miriam was our most athletic player, and she's probably the most athletic player I've coached in years. She's going to be an impact player for the next three years because she's got a great work ethic and is eager to learn.

Maurice has struggled lately. And (yet) I don't think there's anybody I've ever coached who wants to win more than he does.

Mau had a great first half. But he got worn down in the second half and their defense had a lot to do with it. They are very well coached and did a great job of taking him out of the game in the second half.

My favorite was the first time I ever coached against FHU, we were down about 10 in the second half and still came back to win. The atmosphere for those games is simply fantastic. I'd put it up against all but five or six other places in the country at any level. Ask our girls that transferred from D-I places - they haven't seen crowds like that until they came here.

Obviously you'd like to coach a team like that, ... Everybody has their plates full right now with their own team, so I have no idea what anybody is doing. That is the farthest thing from my mind. But I sometimes think that winning the last World Cup didn't count for anything. I've coached a lot more games than most of the guys whose names I've read are being considered.

None of those service members were coached as to what to say.

No one ever talks about our defense. Our defense has always been good. But when you have great offensive players like I've coached the last 15 years, it's hard to concentrate on our defense. But our defense has been pretty good.

My dad never coached me, but he was always there, ... He liked to sit out behind the center field fence.

My dad has had the biggest effect on me. He played Division III basketball in college. He got me into it early and coached me when I was younger. He's supported me all along and has really kept me motivated.

Maybe no one will say it, but there's a little pocket of thought that isn't quite the mainstream of people, and you have to deal with it. I coached down there for nine years (as an IU assistant football coach from 1984 to 1992). I dealt with it, but I wasn't the head coach.

Richie just got a raw deal this season, and Derek and Danny were just great to coach. They never complained. You couldn't find better kids than those three seniors. I have coached for 10 years, and I am always going to remember these seniors and what they have done for me and our program.

Rich had an excellent season. He came as far as any player I've coached over his two years. He took up basketball on a competitive level when he came to Brewster. He had a desire to learn and improved dramatically.

Richard is an outstanding coach who has been in the NFL for 17 years. I coached with him in Houston and have always thought he was one of the best coaches I've had the chance to work with.

One thing is that we have changed the offensive systems to fit our personnel at each place. You can't do the same thing all the time and I think some coaches get caught up in trying to run the same system when their personnel doesn't necessarily allow it. Before this season, I never coached a girl over 5 foot 9 , so this is a little different and we made adjustments to utilize our height.

One thing I really enjoyed was for two games he coached us. That was awesome. You really got to see how good a coach he is. I had only known him by meeting him in the hallway and just shaking hands, but seeing him behind the bench, seeing his knowledge and the things he said, I was really impressed.

One of the most upbeat people I've ever coached -- and it becomes contagious.

I wished I could have coached her for four years. She's strong and aggressive. I think with more work, she could have been a lower Division I prospect for basketball. She has the type of natural ability and aggressive attitude that translates well to both sports.

If we had brought back the exact same group we had last year, I think the results would be good, but we needed more talent, ... We built the team around Shaquille that's a now team. We want to get it done as quick as we can. This is by far the best team that I've been around since the ones that I coached in Los Angeles.

I have great respect for Bobby Bowden and what he's done for college football. His teams play with enthusiasm. I've coached Florida State kids (in the NFL) and they believe in their program. It's a very competitive program.

I have great respect for Bobby Bowden and what he's done for college football, ... His teams play with enthusiasm. I've coached Florida State kids (in the NFL) and they believe in their program. It's a very competitive program.

I have coached in West Texas and have coached against them. I know we'll have to play well. They usually had a couple of strong players.

I don't know. He's not one of those 6-4, 220-pound guys who runs the 40 in 4.6. But he's an athlete. His father coached for 30 or so years, so he grew up in a passing system.

I don't know, 33, he may have had a lot of hard miles on him. Sometimes these coaching years are like dog years. It's all relative. I think the experiences through the course of that. He's a guy that has coached in and won the Super Bowl. You can't put a premium on that. That's what everybody in this league is playing for, that ring. I don't have one on my finger, he does have one on his finger. There is something to that.

I don't know that I've ever coached a team that has won in this gym.

I don't know too much about them. But I think they might be a bit like Washington State since (Bennett) coached at Wisconsin.

I coached today like I always coach. I was coaching to win and that is what I am going to do. I will reflect on what has happened after this is all over. I don't have time for that right now. We cannot allow what has happened or what will happen distract from what we are doing.

I coached this game with a heavy heart. My dad passed away. I found out about it the middle of last night.

I coached third base for 10 years and I don't second-guess my third base coaches.

I coached Scott's brother in college. He's done a great job up there in his first year.

I coached PL back in season 1997-98 and really enjoyed it. I have happy memories of my time there. We've not got our troubles to seek with injuries just now so I'm hoping there are no shocks this weekend.

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and worm.

I coached Gary for many years and I was never aware of how strongly he felt. We played Liverpool plenty of times at junior level and Gary was no more hyped up than anyone else. It was later that he started getting in bits and pieces of bother and everyone became aware of what he thinks of Liverpool.

I coached both of them last year and it was fun. They both listen ? they have no choice ? I'm probably a lot harder on them than the other players.

I coached both of them at the AAU level and tried to teach the game of basketball. In some ways I think they've kind of appreciated that type of insight to it, versus maybe just organizing and going out and playing hard. It's nice that they're getting involved with it on a voluntary basis.

I coached Bobby in football when he was a seven. I always knew he was going to be a good athlete.

I coached at Maryland for five years. We were statistically as impressive a team as you can be on offense for many of those years. We couldn't win games. I want to win here.

I coached an absolutely awful game; terrible game plan, pick-and-roll schemes; everything.

I coached a lot of these girls before in summer and fall leagues so I know what they can and can not do.

I coached a lot of different systems and had success at all of them. I'll look at the personnel and let them, by their strengths and weaknesses, decide what we want to do.

I coached against John Bruce 20 years ago. That used to be a big rivalry for us at Langford.

Bryce and Chris are among the seven seniors that are pretty special to me because I coached them two years with the high school and two years with Bantams. So it was hard to see Bryce and Chris in street clothes for the playoffs.

I'm always worried about them. I know they're coached well. Coach (Mike) Briggs is a good coach, and they have two former head coaches on that staff. They've got a couple of kids that the Shrine Bowl is looking at tailback and wide receiver, so you know they can put points on the board.

I have so much respect for Keenan and I'm really proud to have coached him. I'm not saying that I developed his career or anything, I don't mean it that way, but I mean just what he brought as a player, his work ethic, his attitude . . . He's really a special guy.

I have never coached because of money, but they've been more than fair with me. That was definitely a factor for me.

I feel like I coached about 50 games too many.

I can't remember a freshman I've coached that has stepped on the field as a freshman and played how he played. You have to be somebody special (to contribute as a true freshman). He knew what he wanted to do when he came here. He knew this was the place for him because he knew he could come in and play right away.

I can't emphasize enough (that) none of us have ever coached or played or seen the way the game is going to be.

I found out about it the middle of last night, ... I coached this game with a heavy heart.

I don't want to be coached by nobody else. If we make the Tournament, I think AK has a better chance of getting the job. That's one of the reasons I really want to get there because I don't want to be here with a new coach.

I expect Berry to spread the floor with their Princeton offense. They're going to be tough to defend. Berry is well coached and they're going to be ready to play.

I don't think I've been around or have coached a guy like him. Whatever 'it' is, he's got 'it.' He's a remarkable person both on and off the field, a real tribute to his family and Hopewell High School and the town of Aliquippa.

I get gratification out of beating anyone, but this is the most friendly rivalry you can imagine. I've coached some of those kids. One thing I know about that program is those kids always come to play.

He was as good with the puck and as hard on the puck as he is now, relative to the skill level. He was a committed guy then. I coached his older brother and his younger brother as well and they're good people.

I always like to see them because I coached them in junior high. They're all nice kids but it would be nice to get over the hump and get a win.

I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was one of my passions to come to a school and always leave it better than it was.

He's coached in a lot of different places and tinkered with a lot of different ideas, but I've kept the same practice format that I learned from him for 14 years here. I guess he's gone the full cycle. He's always been very open-minded. He's receptive to change.

He has great instincts, ball skills - you can tell he has been well coached - and he's just a good young player.

He has come out of some great programs and he's been on some great defenses. He was at Alabama four years ago when they were No. 1 in the nation (defensively). He coached the secondary there. And he has great experience. He's been doing it the right way for a long time.

He has coached at the top level of Division II. More important, having played for him and coached with him, I know how he goes about his business and how he treats his players.

He does a very nice job of doing that. He's one of the first quarterbacks I've coached who is really comfortable throwing on the run. He's real comfortable on the move out of the pocket, so that's part of (the offense). You'll see us do a little bit more of that because that's where his comfort level is and that's us evolving the offense.

He made some throws that I'm sure he won't make this time next year. I think Alex is going to be good. I coached against John Elway in his first game, and it was very similar. You can't judge anyone by their first game.