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My first head coaching job was with B.C. in 1983 and we went to the Grey Cup (losing 18-17 to Toronto). At the end of that year, I couldn't believe the things I had been through because there's no way somebody can prepare you for it. Danny, I'll tell you this, it gets easier and you're going to get to a lot more.

My first impression is that I think (the previous coaching staff) did a good job of recruiting good people. I don't see any problems with attitude or selfishness with this team. There are going to be flaws with every program, but we'll address them and try to be the best we can be. I'm eager to get started. We're undefeated.

Maybe just the talent level is up a little bit, and the continuity and stability of our coaching staff is solid. Now our athletes know and understand what the coaching staff wants, and we're all in sync.

Nobody gives us a chance, but the kids and the coaching staff believe.

Nobody has ever done this DVD technology before; no other sports team, because it's so new. We'll have the opportunity to really transform the way video coaching and scouting are done. It's kind of old-school to have to send people around to watch the game when you have all these feeds of it already. Our coaching staff isn't ready to make that change yet, but once they become comfortable with the system, they could.

No doubt, they are the best team we've faced all year long. They are a team without any real weaknesses. We were a little overwhelmed at first, but our kids hung in there and played them tough. Our coaching staff is proud of the way our team played all season long.

Noelle without a doubt stepped up to the plate and threw down today. The coaching staff could not have been more excited for her to have such a great result as she continues to improve each week. We just ran into a very strong European field.

Now why couldn't that have been the case when I was coaching all those years against Don James? Washington never had a bad team back then.

Obviously, coach Willard has a great pedigree. He's done a very nice job. He's been involved with some different head coaching opportunities. He's someone I will definitely, definitely look at. But he's just one of several that I look forward to researching and visiting with.

Obviously, everybody was way ahead of me, but certainly I considered it, ... I have no regrets. I love the kids that we're coaching right now. They do everything we ask them to do. There are no prima donnas.

Obviously, the big issue is we're not winning any gosh darn games. It's gnawing at us as a team and a coaching staff. I don't like to be a coach that talks about playing well if we're not winning, but we've got goaltending that put us in position to win both games. The plain clear thing is that we've lost the scoring touch.

Now that we have (Brown and Cook) here, and we're actually coaching them, we have a much better sense of how quickly they catch on to things and how physically ready they might be, ... That changes the equation and some of the things that are available to us.

Obviously, it's a big job and I think he's doing a fine job. ... It's a big job coaching two at the same time, even though he's got good assistants..

Never in my 20 years of coaching this sport have I had one player - let alone two - taken from a field via ambulance. The most painful, emotional night in my softball life.

Ricky did a fantastic job for us this year. If someone said, 'Who have you enjoyed coaching the most in all my years of football,' he'd be one of the top guys I've ever been around.

My first objective is to graduate. I definitely want to stay around the baseball field, maybe get into coaching and do it at the highest level I can.

My lasting memory of her will be as one of the great communicators with young people that I've ever been around in my coaching career. It's tragic. My lasting memory will be of her smile. We just had so much fun.

My little tirade, that doesn't help, absolutely not. That's a bad coaching reaction. That doesn't help the hockey team right now. I have my feelings, but it does not have to be presented that way at this point with this team.

I don't know a whole lot about them, but I'm looking forward to getting to know the guys and the coaching staff, along with getting a feel for the system itself and where I will fit in,

I have enjoyed coaching the Rutgers basketball team for the past five seasons, and have had the opportunity to work with some tremendous young men. But at this time, I feel that this is the best course of action for me to take for the Rutgers basketball program and for my family. I feel we were able to accomplish a lot here, but it is time for me and my family to move forward.

I have enjoyed coaching these girls the last three years. It has been fun watching them grow as basketball players. I am happy for them to be able to end the regular season with a win.

I have been teaching in Hingham for two years. I was lucky to have been there when Guy resigned. I have been coaching soccer for a company and working with children of all age groups and the opportunity to coach Hingham fell in my lap.

I didn't do a good job of coaching tonight. I didn't feel like I got our kids in a good position to win the game.

I'd lot rather seen them with my own eyes. Other former coaches scouted for me. The coaching fraternity has been very good to me this year.

I'd like to thank my teammates, my mother and the coaching staff. I couldn't have done this without them. It was a hard decision and I had to go with my heart.

I'd like to give coaching a try, either in the arena league or at the college level and get into that in some capacity, ... I have some options to consider, I've had a career in real estate outside of football for the past few years so I could always fall back on that.

I don't deal with it at all. I just coach my team. Anybody that is doing that right now isn't coaching his team. But there's probably going to be a lot of coaching changes.

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 have a good coaching voice, that's for sure.

I don't get too worked up, but coaching in an SEC game and watching your son play in a big game are pretty comparable (on the nerves). But I want him to do well, that's for sure.

I don't even want to beat that drum anymore. We all know how I feel about that. I'm pretty sure the coaching staff feels the same way. I feel like a diamond in the rough, and hopefully they'll polish me up this year.

I don't even want to comment. I'm commenting more on coaching than I should, until I get a chance to meet with Mr. Wilson. We wanted to cross this hurdle before we talk about that.

I didn't get coaching in Seattle like I did this year, ... except for my first two years.

If we can put together a memorable season on defense, that will help his chances to get a head coaching job. Ted definitely deserves it. He's a player's coach I've followed to two teams. If I had it my way, I wouldn't play for any other defensive coordinator.

I don't know who in this room had their stuff together at 21. There are going to be lesser days. That's what the coaching staff, Curt and his veteran teammates are here for. It's a support system.

I don't know what it is. Maybe we need to spend more time doing on-the-court coaching and stop watching college basketball.

I don't know what to tell you. I've been coaching for almost 25 years, and he's got the best stuff I've ever seen.

If we feel we need to strengthen the coaching staff, then we'll decide, but this is a crucial part of the season and we just have to support him and make sure that he can do his job.

We needed a change. We were getting too comfortable, coaching staff included.

Louis Chabot has demonstrated to the team and the coaching staff that he is a capable Division I goaltender, ... Unfortunately, he is behind one of the best, if not the best goaltender in the nation. It's a very difficult situation, but Louis has handled it very well and has improved a lot over his first three years at Cornell. We have a lot of confidence in him, and he has the ability to do the job.

There are many aspects of coaching that I don't claim to be an expert on, but certainly discipline is one of the criteria.

There are two components. It's a process that keeps our organization filled with talented players because we have excellent people involved in scouting and the minor league system. The second part is Bobby Cox and his coaching staff, who take this talent wherever it comes from and blends it as effectively as any staff in the major leagues can do.

When you combine the potential coaching opportunities out there and Pollard being decisive, I think that had a big part in it.

Since I've been here coaching this team we've had some big wins, but this is probably the biggest we've ever had.

My junior year, we played Fort Thomas in the championship game, and that was a lot of fun. I really enjoy the tournament even more now. Even if I wasn't coaching in it, I'd be there watching it.

Mike is a veteran coach, and he has been at it a long time. Mike also has a good support group. We have 120 years together on our coaching staff collectively. The right hand and left hand pretty much know what each other are doing. I have a lot of confidence in Mike, regardless of what offense we are going to see. Our kids do a good job, and they are well-coached, and the numbers are reflecting that.

Mike's a very confident individual and he's a winner. It's tough for him right now because he's going through a coaching change, he's not getting the ball like he did in college. He's a first-round pick and he doesn't have the chance to act like it.

Mike's knowledge and expertise will be a real asset to our team. I know he will be a valuable resource for Craig Smith, our coaching staff and myself as we continue to work this off-season and throughout the upcoming year.

Mike was a great guy and I know he'll be coaching somewhere else. Wherever he goes, I won't mind playing for Mike Sherman. He's just that great of a guy.

Motivation through fear was Woody's biggest coaching tool,

Most of these teams will have anywhere from 18 to 20 players, plus their parents, plus the coaching staff. You're talking between 60 and 80 for each team. Everyone but Marquette arrived Thursday.

She is an awesome player. I didn't have much to do with coaching her. She had been taught well. She is a basketball player. I hope she continues to do well. I think she will.

She has talent, but it is her heart that has got her this far. She has a lot of heart. When I first began coaching her, I saw that she had a love of the sport. She hasn't lost it.

She has to be one of the best, if not the best, that I've had in my 28 years coaching at Lincoln. I've had 11 girls go on to play Division I, Kristin could definitely be the 12th.

When I was at Providence, I'd feel like every day I was coaching to save my life. As you get older, hopefully you get smarter. I've learned that sometimes less is more.

Life coaching has received a lot of press recently; it seems you can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading a quote from a life coach.

Mainly just the coaching staff. I didn't have to go far away. The coaches with experience know what they're doing.

Lugosi was not well. I had to coach him through some scenes, and I was very pleased when Karloff came on the scene and was very sensitive in coaching him through the sequences. Lugosi was one of the finest actors I ever worked with.

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So I believe absolutely in this coaching staff and players and what they're doing.

So from the 2003 season to the 2004 season we cleaned house. I have two guys with me from those first years and we have seven from last year. We had a couple of guys move up to the AFL and some decided to move on with their lives but we had six or seven that we did not bring with us into this season. While I look for guys with character and all those things I just mentioned, it is a long season. Most guys are use to a 10-week season in college and we play sixteen. Some guys taper down towards the end of the season. That was something we couldn't see in guys when we recruited. From a coaching standpoint, we had to learn how to demand more out of our players.

So far, the people have been great and it's been very enjoyable. I've got a good coaching staff, everybody's on the same page and that makes a big difference.

Seattle was just not very good. Nothing against the city or coaching staff or anything like that. I just needed a change and it was nice to get this one.

Scot leaves with our blessing and we'd like to thank him for his efforts during his short time with us. He'd had this offer to go to New Zealand and it was a big step to take but he wants to carry on playing as long as he can before he turns to coaching and he felt this was the right move. We wish him well.

(Ole Miss) brought in a new offensive coordinator (Dan Werner) and I thought it was kind of too late to get to know him and the coaching staff before I could make up my mind. I thought it was too late so I just decided to choose between Michigan and Tennessee.

She's years ahead of her age and coaching experience.

She's the queen of home improvement -- in fact she helped launch this segment. I don't think people are going to even remember that she was in jail once she comes along coaching us how to make the perfect collage.

She's one of those players that doesn't need to score. She's one of those players you really enjoy coaching and she'll do whatever you ask her to do.

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

The most important thing is team morale.

The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

I hate that we lost, but we lost to a good team. Tony Harper does one (heck) of a job coaching basketball. If he's not the best in Texas, he's close. He's a class act.

I have never been more excited and energized about a head coaching appointment in my career than I am with the hiring of Ben Jacobson as our men's basketball coach. Ben is ready to take this step. He has the support of the current team and our recruiting class and he will do a great job of maintaining the excellence that we have built in our men's basketball program.

Harry does a great job coaching the team. They have a peculiar style - they play a very small lineup and everyone shoots the ball. It's a real challenge to defend them.

The only thing that never wavered was his teammates and the coaching staff,

Knute Rockne once applied for the coaching job at Michigan Agricultural College, which became Michigan State.

Khalid El-Amin put up with a great deal of grief on the road. And it was the best coaching that anybody could have done for me, because Khalid loved every single second of it. He loved to show you.

I would say there is because Shannon Jackson, he says it's a rivalry. Their players, from him playing there and coaching there, they look at it as a rivalry.

(Hastings) is starting to assert himself on the offensive end. I turned to my coaching staff and told them that one big shot would get us over the hump and Chris was the one that hit the shot.

He is working on all sorts of projects. Whether he wants to eventually get involved in the coaching side I just don't know. He is enjoying his time off.

There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into coaching club diving, it was like starting from scratch. It's harder to get back on top now, the sport is so good.

There are so many kids that I admire and have had the privilege of coaching. There have been such great parents and it has been an outstanding experience for me. The kids have all been respectful, good sports and the parents are very supportive. I have been very fortunate to have the experience of coaching at Lake Central.

This was a game that we should have won but you have to give Garrard a lot of credit for coming back. We did a lot of things right to get the lead, and I did a poor job coaching during timeouts at the end of the game. The girls gave an outstanding effort and deserved to win the game.

He'll be a great coach. I've been waiting for him to get into coaching for a while, but he had to finish what he started. He didn't want to have any regrets.

He just draws stuff up for Bruce. He stays on top of Bruce on and off the field. When he found out Bruce was going to go in the game, he was coaching him up on the sideline. He also coaches him up in practice.

He just feasts on us. He's a great kid. I really like watching him play from a coaching perspective because he brings a lot to the table, not only for Waterloo but for our conference.

I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that victory was not the most important thing in this first game. In this competition you can get lucky and win here and there, but if you don't start to consistently produce quality high-class performances, then you go nowhere.

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.

If I was coaching him, I'd fine him $100 every time he hit a groundstroke, ... In his most difficult moments, he was more awkward than I anticipated.

If I was coaching I would've yanked his butt out of the game. After a couple of those long bombs, I would've sat him down.

If I was coaching the boys, I would broadcast girls basketball and football. If I was coaching the girls, I'd broadcast football and boys basketball.

I am superstitious, and he's been our defensive captain each and every week on our winning streak. He'll go with us (to Seattle), Lord willing, and he'll be our defensive captain again this week, and he'll do a good job of coaching behind the scenes.

I am the one with NHL head coaching experience and no one has followed this team as closely as I have since training camp. As of this point, I will take full responsibility as the head coach.