Coaches Quotations | Page 4

I don't know that that's a real complicated thing to figure out. Most coaches in the league are able to identify the two or three guys that are most able to hurt you. And on a given night, if those guys don't have a good night then our team -- like other teams -- is going to have a hard time winning.

I don't know. That's not my choice. I will leave that up to the coaches to make that decision. It's going to be a tough decision for them.

I don't know when it's going to hit me, but a lot of hard work went into it by these coaches and these players. Eight weeks ago, I don't think anybody would have thought we'd be here today.

I don't know who decides that. We don't. The coaches must.

I don't know what's going on with them. My coaches and I are talking about it. They cry a lot, they whine.

I don't know yet who it will be. But everyone keeps telling me there are all these coaches available. Well, now we will sit down and find out just who is up for the job.

I'd done it before. It's a heavy load, and I was a lot more hands on when I first took over. But I was very relieved when (James and Christ) were able to take over - I'm pretty much their assistant now. We've got two of the best coaches in the state right there. What they've done is nothing short of miraculous.

I'd be more concerned if people looking for coaches weren't interested in the people we have at Hofstra.

I couldn't have drawn it up any other way. Playing in my first game, in my hometown before my family, coaches and friends and to win the game on that play.

I am excited about the players we have available to us, and as coaches we are looking forward to working with them.

I am especially honored that I get to coach on the other side of a guy I really respect. He is one of the coaches that as a young coach you look up to. He has done a fantastic job and they are a very well-coached team. We will have our hands full on Saturday.

I am delighted to be back, spending time with my family and use the experience I have, whether I am coaching the Under-14s at Sullivan Upper or coaching coaches at Level 3 (with the IRFU). It is good to be able to help people change,

I am being patient and letting things come to me. The team and the coaches have confidence in me. They feel everything with me is about being patient and in a groove.

I am glad to see that Glenwood is coming back and has more kids. I am impressed by the kids and the coaches and what they do.

I am just hoping we play well. If we play well it will be a good game. If we don't it could get ugly pretty quick. They (the players) are prepared and in shape. It is up the kids now. The coaches can't go out and play the game. All we can do is prepare them the best we can.

I believe this is the biggest recognition I'm going to get for the rest of my life in my country. Coming from a country with so many good players and so many coaches and being chosen to do this, nothing will match this.

I believe the great coaches have passion that comes out of their pores and not just their mouth. You don't just see that passion, you felt it. Tim Walton has passion.

I am terribly disappointed. But this is the ultimate team sport and we will have to keep playing. I have confidence that these guys and coaches can get it done.

I am sure the other coaches in the league had a hard time deciding where to place our players on the All-Conference team, just as I did placing theirs.

I am very excited about what this can do for my future. It was fun being involved in the Final Four environment, and it was nice to be able to share it with my coaches and teammates at the same time.

I am very excited about the opportunity to become a head coach, and it's even more special to have this opportunity at my alma mater. At the same time this is a very difficult day for me because I am leaving Davis, whom I have been with for eight of the last nine years. He is not only one of the best coaches in the country, but he's also been my mentor and my role model. He is the reason I am the coach and the person I am today.

I am very aware of what I have and I appreciate what people have done for me to this point. But I also look at what other coaches have done and how they've been compensated, and I want to move forward in a fair and responsible way.

I am so pleased to be joining Arsenal, a club I have admired for a long time. Coming to Arsenal will give me the opportunity to work with world-class players every day and play football at the highest possible level. It is a strange day because I am also very sad to be moving from Southampton. I am leaving many friends and some great coaches who have been so important to my career so far, but I leave with many great memories from the club. I am now really looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and working hard as an Arsenal player.

I apologize to my former teammates and coaches for leaving at midyear. I feel I can best deal with some personal problems closer to home that have been weighing on me over the last few months. I wish KU the best the rest of the season.

I am very sorry and I deeply regret my actions on Sunday. In the heat of a tense game, I lost my head and made a bad decision. I'm not making excuses for my actions and I take full responsibility for what I did. I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Loren Stokes, who I have great respect for. I also want to say I'm sorry to Hofstra University's players, coaches and fans. They played a terrific game and that should not be overshadowed by what I did.

Certainly, the coaches deserve a lot of the credit because they've kept these guys going. In addition, the rest of the team has maintained the level of play that's necessary to be successful.

Certainly, Blake has improved. He has certainly learned what's going on, and he should play much, much better this year. I hope we have some coaches around here so our guys improve from one year to the next.

But the thing the coaches can't ignore is she's so talented with her feet. That's the great thing about soccer, it takes all shapes and sizes.

Bryan's a competitor. He hates to lose. He does whatever he can to help the team. He does whatever the coaches ask. He scores, he hits the boards hard, he's a heck of a defensive player and he gets on the floor after loose balls.

Basketball is a game of runs. I've heard that from all of my coaches and I tell the kids that now. We made a run and then they made a run. It's just a good hard-fought game when it's like that. I like games like that; those are the best.

Because we dispersed the workload over all of the defensive coaches everybody has picked up some slack it has gone very, very smoothly. We all have a little increase, but it's not a whole lot. Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and away we go.

Because of the way we did things here at Stevens Point, when professional coaches are looking for players who are ready for tryouts, they're not afraid to call us.

Chris is a guy the offensive coaches fought for the day we walked in the door. He's a guy that could possibly be an NFL offensive lineman, as well.

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'm always trying to find positives. I'm always challenging these kids, and I think they have really bought into what my coaches and I are telling them. As long as we give 110 percent and stick to what we do (best), I'm not mad.

I loved everything about him, the way he handled his players, the media and everything he did for USA Hockey. I just like listening to other successful coaches to try and continue to learn and grow as a coach.

I'll admit I was having a little trouble in the classroom before. I wasn't failing or anything, but my coaches could see I wasn't living up to my potential. I was just going through the motions, just getting by, just staying eligible.

I love being a TV analyst. It keeps me close to the game. I get to go watch practices, talk with the coaches and players and then see them compete. It's exciting.

I had messed up that game, and I thought coaches wouldn't have much faith in me. I was nervous. I was seeing the plays, but I wouldn't react to it.

I have been involved with situations where coaches have left, and there has been a transition of coaching staffs, where I've had abandonment of some team players. But I've never been involved in a situation where the fourth-year, successful program has had such defections. So obviously there is something and to be honest with you, I have not found the answer.

I have been a senior before but not in college. It is a bigger challenge being a senior, so I have to show some leadership around here and the coaches expect that. I am always up for a challenge.

I have been able to regroup and get back to the basics. I talked to a lot of my goalie coaches and got my head back on straight. I have my confidence back and once you get your confidence back you can do anything out there.

I hate to say, but we didn't know what to expect, and we didn't listen to our coaches. We didn't come out and give this team as much respect as we should of. Our coaches had been telling us all week they were good, but we came out a little slow and sluggish.

I hate to let go of a well-kept secret, but I have one of the best coaches in the world,

I give all the credit to the university because (it) offered me the opportunity to do what we do. The coaches here embrace what we do. I've found a very good fit at the university with some very special people.

If I'm not playing, then I'm not playing, and it's something I'm sure the coaches will address. I think the thing that bothers me is that people attack my character and attack who I am as a person. Of course, life isn't fair, but I don't think that's fair at all. That's strange.

I felt I needed to tell the coaches I needed to do whatever it will take to make the team better.

I feel very fortunate to win the award. There are some great coaches in this league...Basketball is a team game and any award that I win is a direct reflection on how hard our team works.

I feel very comfortable. I'm just trying to do what the coaches are asking me. I like to a little bit of everything on the court.

I feel totally healthy and I want to run more this season. You don't want to run into outs with somebody like Gary Sheffield behind you. But it seems like the coaches want to be aggressive. That's good.

I feel they're isolated, but also town organizations should develop a policy. Washington Township has a policy -- a code of conduct -- that all coaches and parents are held to. It's a positive step in the right direction.

I fell in love with the campus. The players and coaches - there was a good vibe between all of us. I feel like it was the right place for me and it is not too far away from home either.

I fell asleep a couple times (in the film room). I just looked at the screen because the coaches said to. But by midseason, (guard Jamie Carey) talked to me, and I took interest.

I feel that text messaging defeats the purpose of the rule. Coaches aren't supposed to be talking to recruits on the phone, but they're still communicating with text-messaging. The spirit of the rule is so kids are not constantly talking on the phone, but now they're constantly text-messaging, and it's time consuming. They are constantly doing this stuff instead of whatever they have to do or want to do.

I feel like home is always with the starters. It's wherever the coaches want me to play.

I feel going into that program, that environment, the coaches will prepare me very well, facing that competition, I'll improve, I'll do well.

I feel real comfortable going into next season. I've got a big line to run behind, good coaches to listen to and coach me up, and we're going to have some good leaders from last year. I think we should do good. We'll try to go and win another state championship.

I feel proud to be from Westmoreland County because I feel, a lot of times, our county gets dismissed. I think we have some great coaches and great teams.

I feel pretty good about the things that I've been doing. But you can improve each week. People don't see stuff that the coaches see. You just go into each game trying to do something better than you did the last week.

I feel like we're able to take coaching. You know the coaches are going to raise their voice and they're going to try to challenge you. Now we're taking it in and learning from our mistakes instead of getting mad at the coaches. We understand now that's their job. They're just trying to make us better. We understand they have to win and we have to win. It's just a learning process.

I feel that I'm the fortunate one because I can play both positions, ... I just do whatever the coaches want me to do. I can play more defensive end one game and then more linebacker the next. ? Not starting does not bother me. If I'm on the field, I don't care. They could put me on the offensive line and play me at tackle.

I feel like I'm still growing as a player. The coaches here see me playing the type of football that I like to play. I'm just ready to get started.

I feel like I'm ready to take on anything that comes in front of me with the help of the coaches and my teammates. I think I can do anything.

I can't say for sure whether they'd be winners or not, but I know that me and Aaron would be getting down to what the problem is, ... We're the type of guys that would go in there and try to see what's going on. Either talk to the team ourselves or talk to the coaches or something.

I can't say anything negative about Wheeling Park because they played hard. We were the better team. We don't have the best players and we don't have the best coaches but we have the best team possible at Big Red.

I can tell you that our coaches and athletic directors and presidents have all told me in the strongest terms where they want to be long term is they want everybody playing everybody at least once, ... They feel very strongly that if you're going to be in a conference, that any team not to be playing another team is just not the right thing to do. We have some of that right now and I think we're uncomfortable with that but we were left with little choice.

Great players make coaches look good. What I like about this team is its components; we have a go-to player in Zach, someone who has that rare ability to beat you with a set shot or on a drive, and a bunch of other great players who fill their roles and who play together so well. Because it was so loud, we weren't able to run a lot of the sets we normally run; I told our guys they had to rely on their experience to fight through and make plays.

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Getting Dion this year made up for losing a lot of other people. Of course he has a learning curve, but he doesn't have big holes in his game. He just has tiny details he has to work out, and the coaches love working with a guy with that much talent.

Gilbert carried us tonight. One of the coaches compared this lineup with Philadelphia's a few years ago - (Allen) Iverson and eight defensive players. That's what it seemed like tonight. Caron carried some of the weight and Daniels hit some big shots, but (Arenas) was the steady scorer.

For me, the coaches were the most important thing at that point. Just meeting them, clicking with them, their energy, their youth.

Free throws were huge. Our coaches work us hard at the line.

Free-throw shooting is a lost art. It's not as good as it once was, and maybe it is because coaches are limited with how much time they can dedicate to free throws in practice and kids don't really work on them on their own as much as they should. Foul shots aren't flashy, but they certainly win games, and we try to stress that to our guys. Especially at tournament time.

From all the reports I get from the players that have come up here, from the reports from the coaches and everybody said that he has handled himself very well in a situation where there could be a little whining. I wouldn't agree with the whining, but it happens and he hasn't done it.

From an outsiders point of view, you're graded on whether you score or not. But that's not true with coaches and teammates. It's also a matter of what I do away from the goal to help the team. I've never focused on just scoring goals. My goal has been to be a good teammate and help out defensively whenever I can.

From an individual standpoint, I think I did fairly decent. It's really up to the coaches to say whether I really handled the job or not. I just tried to do the best I could.

From our scouting reports and coaches I talked to, we only thought they had one player who was an adequate outside shooter. They really surprised me in how well they did with a variety of shooters from the outside.

Fund-raising provided extra stress that coaches just don't need. It's just asking us to do too much to be a coach and be a chief financial officer.

From what I can tell he?s doing a good job listening to the coaches and doing whatever he can to help the team. I don?t get the chance to line up next to him, but he?s there and he?s holding his own.

I don't think anyone should be comfortable with the fact that coaches are going into classrooms and sitting down.

If a scout came up to all of the baseball coaches in the conference and said, 'Here's 100 of the best kids in Missouri,' ... I would probably have to tear that sheet in half. Fifty of them right off the bat academically wouldn't be able to get in.

I don't think we're all of a sudden going to magically overturn years of how things have been done here, ... But I think management and coaches are seeing we have some more options now.

I don't think you can win without it. That's the biggest challenge we as coaches face every year.

I envied the way he was. I'm not just saying this, Billy Carlisle was just a great person. He was so respected by other coaches and people in general.

I enjoy the competition of all the games. I love to coach and be in a competitive situation where we're up against the greatest players and the greatest coaches on a weekly basis. It's very challenging but it's very exciting, and that?s true every week.

I don't think it's anything we wouldn't have done anyhow, to be honest with you. We've been in contact with every one of the organizations and each one of the pitching coaches as to where their guys are at and what they would want them to do. I would be very surprised if we even came too close to any of the pitch counts.

I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed from the home crowd, that's never something that is positive. As far as me getting cheers, that's happened for a long time there...that's my alma mater, that's where I played, I won a national championship there.

I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed by their home crowd.

I don't think I've ever heard him yell in (the wrestling room) and most coaches get you going by yelling. He just never yells and the reason you want to work your butt off for him is because you respect him so much you don't want to let him down.

From the coaches to the players, we're excited about playing Richards. It gives us the opportunity to gain respect.

From the coaches to the players, everyone was embarrassed about Monday night. They weren't going to let that happen again.

Forty-five is a pretty consistent number for me. It's neat to be on a stage like this and take advantage of the opportunity. Just going in there and showcasing myself to the scouts, I was kind of hyped up. I've always been gifted in weightlifting. I worked very well with our strength coaches at Ohio State.

For what Angie does, she's probably the best in the league. If coaches didn't prepare for her they were doing something wrong.

If it was me, being chosen by the fans would not be nearly as significant as being chosen by the coaches. Now players may look at that differently, I don't know, but if I was a player ? because there are so many very good ones ? I really do believe being chosen by the coaches is a great honor.

If it's competition, there's a lot more to it than consolidation. There needs to be an improved feeder system and increased pay for coaches if we are to compete with (Marion) County and suburban schools.

I got back to basics, just started hitting shots. The more you relax and just see the shot and hit it, the better off you are. Sometimes coaches just gets in the way. So now I'm doing it myself, just me and my caddie.

I go out there, I focus, I make sure that I know my assignments, make sure Coach Martz and the other coaches can trust me, make sure I play my butt off, and basically make it where they have to keep me, ... I want to make myself play well enough that they have to say, 'Hey, we have to keep this guy.'

If the coaches let me, I hope I can try a 55- or 60-yarder, ... If I make it, that would be great. I don't know what I would do if I made it. I just want to try something longer than what I've already done.

He's had another year of becoming more familiar with the personnel, more familiar with what he has on the offensive side of the ball, but I think Galen is one of the best coaches in the country as far as coaching on game day. He does a great job making adjustments on the fly, and that's a hard skill to do.

He understands what the coaches want, understands different people's game and he really understands his own ability. He's a lot more aggressive.