Coaches Quotations | Page 9

I was pleased that the other district coaches gave her this honor considering how strong our district is. She knew she needed to score more and increased her low block move and her perimeter skills.

I wasn't myself. I know I wasn't myself. The coaches know I wasn't myself. Everybody knew that I wasn't myself. It was the smart thing to do (to sit out a game).

I wasn't frustrated at all. Just keep doing the things the coaches tell me and come to practice to work.

I wasn't expecting to get that many points, but everybody really stepped up. All the coaches working with the kids it takes everybody's work to get to where we're at and it paid off.

I wasn't even going to go to the basket. One of the coaches told me to get to the block and I'm saying, 'This isn't going to work.

I wasn't counting the seconds on the clock; I just knew I couldn't let him get the takedown. To be honest, I wasn't thinking about much of anything. I just listen to what the coaches tell me. I usually just draw blanks.

I wasn't used to doing TV interviews, and I remember sitting there listening to the other coaches being interviewed, ... I was in awe. I had a good seat because I was going to be next and they asked him how do you expect your team to do and how do you rate the teams. I remember the coach saying, 'There are three teams here with a chance to win.' I knew he had to be talking about our team as the team that didn't have a chance.

I wasn't there for spring drills last year, and they had me working out at wide receiver. During the spring, coaches tend to change things around. More than likely I'll play at receiver or maybe move to corner.

I was not going to go just anywhere. The stability of the program appealed to me. Dan is the dean of the Big 12 coaches and has done a great job retaining his coaching staff despite all the success ISU has experienced.

I would never stand in the way of any of our coaches if they have a dream of becoming a head coach. We'll work within the league structure. ... I have no problem with that.

I would like to assemble a group of coaches that carry two common traits: great passion and great integrity. Kerry has great passion for the game, for recruiting, for his players and for people overall.

I would like (Jones), but the defensive coaches need him. Maybe in the open week; you never know.

I would just like to thank the coaches in the league for recognizing our players. What the coaches are saying by voting our guys on is that they appreciate unselfishness, great attitudes and team basketball.

I would like to try and get a graduate assistant position after I get my masters. Coaches from other teams tell me that they were a manager and then a graduate assistantthey were once in my spot.

I would like to think the game transcends it all, and that's the thing both Marvin and I were working toward, and hoping to get. In the NFL, the color of a coach's skin doesn't matter. We're just two football coaches playing each other on Opening Day and the guy who can get his team to play the best on that day should win the game, and I think that's what we both want from our position.

I would like to thank the coaches for putting me in position to be successful. Coach (Ben) Braun, especially, gave me his support on my decision. He has said he's behind me no matter what.

I would like to thank all the players, staff and coaches who have been part of my time at the Thunder, ... And a special thank you goes to the Thunder fans who have helped the team to achieve its success over the past few years.

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

My coaches have been telling me all year that sometimes you have to trust your teammates.

My coaches calm me down too. Without them, I'd probably go ballistic and not have anybody to talk to.

My coaches are always telling me, if you have an open shot, take it because you can shoot the ball. I took what the defense gave me.

My coaches always told me to follow my own shot, and that's what I did. I shot a prayer, and it went in. This is the Garden, and it was my first time here. It feels great. I'm a little overwhelmed right now.

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

Most of the coaches I've talked to said they're a young and very aggressive team. They're supposedly starting five to six freshmen.

Most of the coaches and some of the tech guys have been on the slope. It's a very challenging course for sure. Some of the athletes will be excited and others will be surprised.

Most coaches will tell you it's very important to win that last one. That's all anyone talks about.

Most coaches want a dominant point guard and a dominant post player. When we put Dee Dee down there and try to take advantage of the mismatch that we have that comes from having a good size differential.

Most coaches stay up late wondering why their team is not playing well. I was up all night trying to figure out why we were playing so well. In the end, I just decided to stay out of the way.

Most coaches don't like to see that, because now you don't have the talent pool to draw from.

Most coaches can't stand (this system). They're going to add two more plays, thinking if this one is good, then one more would be great. But they're running the same plays and the same system.

Most high-school kids are drastically overweight as it is. But most responsible coaches probably have something like this in place already.

Mickey is one of the brightest young coaches out there. I'm glad to have him on the coaching staff with the knowledge he has of our offense.

Why wouldn't the coaches be available to the media? The coach is the spokesman for the team. We don't receive any complaints about head coaches not being available enough.

Whoever they put in there, I'm sure they'll be ready to play. They're on scholarship, too, as our coaches say.

When the (college) coaches were recruiting him (earlier in his career), the comment they made time and again was how unselfish he was and how willing he was to give the ball to the seniors. That says a lot about his character.

When the coaches receives from you such treatment, how much worse treatment you deserve for not fulfilling your duty and for disappointing the expectations that you have raised by your being a man?

When the BC job came open I was interested. I knew the program and its history of coaches from both as a player and a coach. I thought I could leave my mark here and I always felt BC could be more consistent in having its coach. BC was going through a cleansing period and I think I needed one, too.

When that (missing the playoffs) happens a lot of time there are changes. As players and coaches we all understand the rules of the game. We'll see what happens.

We have only 70 kids at our school. Most of them are three-sport kids. Our track coach (Larry Gifford) coaches boys and girls, and he's also the (athletic director).

You just hope somebody is listening. I think it says what most of the (conference) coaches and players feel. It's a strong conference.

You just have to trust the coaches. (The Broncos) have a new coaching staff, everything. It's really you just trusting the coaches and them saying this is what you're going to do.

We were very excited to be back on the field. The players were upbeat and very positive. The coaches are doing a great job. The retention of the players, as well as their conditioning, was actually pretty good.

We'll bounce back all right. Kids recover a lot quicker than coaches do, so we will be all right.

We were looking for a like-for-like replacement for me and that made the field very narrow. We thought again about the structure and we are being more inventive. We are talking to a lot of guys: there are some good coaches out there and Leicester is not the easiest place to come to because it can be intimidating.

We'd play games and I'd have a couple of college coaches come up and ask about players and nobody would ask about Derek. Once I found out why, I went to Derek and told him not to get upset but the college coaches thought he was playing soft. He just gave me a bewildered look, but he realized he had to change.

We realized as we talked to some other coaches that she hit those big shots in a lot of games. The first time we played her she wasn't really a factor, but we said tonight that we have to know where No. 14 (Short) is at all times and have a hand in her face.

Wellington knew the business, ... He knew football in and out. He knew good coaches and bad coaches, good players and bad players, and he always had an affection for coaches and players.

We played emotionally, we played aggressively and we played intelligently. We've got some things to build on. The coaches put in our head from the first day that we were not going to overlook Duke. We were going to prepare hard and that's what we did. We were victorious today.

Without a doubt, this is the best recruiting class we have put together since I have been here. I believe we accomplished all of our needs. Our coaches did an excellent job evaluating all of these players to see if they met the criteria we were looking for.

We're building a log-term football culture with programs such as this. It's for coaches from minor football up to junior and college.

We have to put this behind us. We've been without him for a while now and we've moved on. We will support him as coaches and teammates.

We have to play to these new rules, but we play to the system implemented by the coaches. Hopefully for the sake of the game, the coaches want to open it up.

You always think of the players and coaches and everybody that's been involved. It's going to go down as a Jim Hoover record, but it's really a Walton football-program record ? and I think that means more than an individual record.

You always appreciate it when you're in a run like that. It's always tough to lose and disappointing to coaches and kids, but win or lose, you're always trying to do better.

We're almost at a point where we have all the coaches being employed, first as teachers but then also as teachers in (our) school, ... I've talked to everybody. They support what I'm talking about. They understand how important it is for them to be around (campus day-to-day).

We have some good, wholesome time that coaches spend with kids, and I think the parents appreciate that.

We are truly fortunate to have one of the most respected and successful coaches leading our organization. Mike has been an integral part of our success and has been involved in all decision making. He will now lead our basketball operations, supported by the extensive talents within his department.

We couldn't play any better tonight than we played. You can always do something better, but given it's a championship-level game against truly one of the great coaches and he's playing in his hometown, to be able to win that game speaks volumes about our team.

When you're the third player (drafted) overall, you have to make plays like that. It was great to have my family, coaches and friends here.

We had lot of peaks and valleys. We've been fairly consistent. It's a credit to our coaches and the football team to step it up. We're in a prime position that a lot of people didn't think we would be in.

We had great kids who improved as season went on. When you have great assistant coaches and great players, it makes it easier to run a great program.

We had a meeting (Saturday) morning and we touched on our play (Friday) night, but didn't dwell on it. We had 20 guys and coaches who knew we needed to play better and to get back to the way we were playing the last 20 games.

We had a lot of careless mistakes but I think that our defensive pressure was not there the whole game. We gave them easy baskets on our turnovers and that's one thing our coaches have been impressing on us all year.

We had five coaches say they don't want their votes published -- these were deal-breakers for them, ... They said, 'I'd feel more comfortable voting honestly than having to go home and defend myself.'

We had to replace four coaches from last year's staff and I'm very pleased with the personnel we were able to bring in. Jeff is obviously a talented, young coach who will play a key role on our staff.

We have a list of questions that we'll ask every individual kid. We also have our position coaches sit down and talk with guys so they can get position-specific.

We've gotten a great effort every single night. They say coaches lose the close games. I must be missing something; I wish I knew what it was.

We've got some kids who can hit and they're starting to come around a little bit. I've had coaches tell me we're a good-hitting team, but we're not where I want to be yet.

We've got some guys who have not been there before, but we have a lot of coaches who have been there before.

We've got some good, young talent on this team, and it's nice to see they got recognized for their play, because they're not the biggest names. There are a lot of guys out there who probably get more recognition from the media, but these guys go out there and play hard every week, and they put it on film, and the players around the league and the coaches around the league saw that. That's why they're going.

We've had good preparation because of it. It was kind of a wakeup call for a lot of the guys that are back and for the coaches and everybody. I feel like we have something to go out and prove -- that we're better than what we did last year, more than anything.

We've lost one of the giants in this business. I have always felt like Sue was one of the top three or four coaches in the women's game.

We've lost one of the giants in this business, ... I have always felt like Sue was one of the top three or four coaches in the women's game. She was a great lady both on and off the court. She will definitely be missed because people like her don't come along very often.

We have coaches who will yell at us and another coach who will calmly tell us what to do. Different guys respond to different things.... It's a good mix.

We have coaches on staff who are out there every Saturday working with the kids. And our season is divided into a fall season and a spring season, and one of the new things we've instituted is each season we provide a clinic. It provides a lot of one-on-one coaching time.

We have boxers who are going into Cuba and coming back with new techniques. We need coaches to assist them on national team trips. We can learn something from them and they can learn something from us.

With the death of John Vaught, we lose an epic figure of 20th century college football. Universally recognized as one of the great coaches in American football history, he brought dignity, intellect, creativity and vision to the game.

With the success we have had this year and going to the NCAA Tournament, I think more athletic directors across the country will look at some more of these people male and female that are great coaches at that level and bring them into the collegiate game.

We've done a good job of improving consistently all the way from the freshmen to the seniors. The coaches do not let us get caught up in winning.

We have a lot of coaches who have been there before. We'll try to educate them, but this will be a very important week, no doubt.

We have a mishmash of players this year, ... No one knew who we were to start the season, but ask all the coaches now and I bet they know.

We need to hear from coaches and other volunteers as soon as possible, so we can start assigning them to teams.

We could have won all those eight games. If we look at it overall, we're 53-8 in five years. That's an enviable place to be. ... Without a question, where we are and what we've done is something to be proud of. But as coaches you always look at those eight. Those are the ones that stand out, and it's always going to be that way. The fans look at the eight, but coaches are worse than fans because we can't go home at night and forget about them.

We can't have a play like they had on the touchdown when we play the Colts. Rex and the coaches will fix that.

We have two outstanding coaches who will lead our team to success in an exciting and challenging competition. This meet will be a significant test for our team. Not only are we are facing our biggest rivals in their backyard, but this is also the last opportunity these athletes have to test themselves on a major international stage before the Beijing Olympics.

We believe the leagues should determine their playoff teams through their bylaws. We feel the coin toss isn't a good way, but encouraging coaches to run up the score is even worse.

We can stick five of our best DBs on five of their best receivers, and I think our coaches would feel comfortable, ... After this game, everyone will see what kind of a secondary we are.

We had opportunities to stand up and make plays and we just didn't do it. I'm tired of it. I know the coaches are tired of it, and I know a lot of guys in that locker room are tired of it.

We'll re-evaluate everything from center snap to what the coaches are doing and see how we can get better.

We have three great coaches on defense that could all be coordinators.

Typically, if a coach is under contract and it's a lateral move, then the permission is denied. But if it's an opportunity to better himself and move from position coach to coordinator, then it's up to the club to decide whether that's really the move that they're describing. If it is, then I feel it's only appropriate to give those coaches an opportunity to help themselves.

You know how some coaches are on such a tight schedule? With Coach Gibbs, his 10 a.m. meeting might start at 10:05, 10:15, whenever he wanted to start it.

When I first saw some of the things he could do naturally, I knew he was special. He could throw the ball harder and run a little bit faster that most quarterbacks. A lot of things come natural to Travis and college coaches look for those guys.

We needed to come back refocused and get back to winning football. Like all coaches say, 'You play like you practice.' We had a great week of practice and we played well tonight.

We have kids who love to play basketball and coaches who love to coach and in the overall scheme of things we need to figure out how to bring this together. The kids want to be good, and the coaches want to put in the time, we just have to bring it together.

We got together as a group -- just a little airing out -- and let everybody say what they had to say. So everybody had a night to think about it. You kind of have these things with the coaches at times, and sometimes players can hold back and not say what they really want to say. But once you're amongst the guys, you can get everything out.

We came to play tonight. We were missing shots and free throws early and we were still only eight points down, We just made plays down the stretch. Coaches coach, but athletes win games.

We came pretty close. We're happy with this class. I don't think there are any position coaches here who don't have guys they're excited about.

We have an obligation to spend this money, whatever it takes, so we can have a fair and open forum for our athletes and coaches to air their grievances. Will it set the program back? Who knows? But it's what we have to do.

We followed what the doctors told us to do and that is what coaches do,