John Chaney Quotes (70 Quotes)

I don't want to see a long parade of going around and celebrating...just do your job and just go on with your life. When you look at your life and put it in the right perspectives...you walk through that door and keep on moving.

I'm just a blue-collar guy that goes to work, ... In any job I've ever had, I've never thought about a time when I would leave. I just go to work.

I don't want to talk about that at all. We've been asked that question for the last five or six years. I've been asked that question ever since I came to Temple. We'll talk about that some other time.

Phil and I talked about many things at lunch yesterday, including ways we can help the victims of the hurricane,

I wish there were some way we could check the DNA on some of these SOBs that are allowed to come to games and show bad manners and throw stuff at Duke's team -- a class coach and a class team. Why is it that we find that all over the country, not only in college, but in pros You ought to be able to check the DNA of an idiot, and do something about it, so you'll not be able to see it again.

I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies.

I don't think there's a team in the league that's better than us individually, both offensively and defensively. But it takes a long time to get kids to play with energy as a team. Team offense and team defense, there's many teams better than us. They don't feed off one guy.

For the minutes he played, he played well. I'm sure watching every minute he plays, because I don't want him to have a setback. He's still under doctor's care and he still takes medications. Very often you'll find him hyperventilating, and that's not good. We need him desperately, because we've been playing center by committee. That's not good. I don't like to do that.

These youngsters came from not just a humble, but a terrible background. And this university made it possible to reach out and pull in people of that kind of background. Thats something that I came here for. And Im hoping this university will stay its course.

The point of the matter is that we have too many people who sell this league down. If this was the ACC or it was the Big Ten, we'd be busy talking about the parity of the league and not talking about one team carrying the day.

He managed a lot of big plantations before he worked for us. As for turkey hunting, he lives it. He could write books about it.

I came here to recognize people at this university who gave a 50-year-old man a chance to come and coach.

They might beat the hell out of us, but we're not in awe of anybody. I've never seen our kids go into a place and feel in awe of somebody. Sometimes they don't even know guys' names. It's unbelievable.

I think every year we've played (Duke), we haven't been able to stop anybody on that ball club. They're full of ammunition ...

Villanova could easily be No. 1 in the country. There's nobody that shoots the ball as those four players on the floor, not even Duke.

We lead the nation in defense every year and it doesn't translate into wins. Sooner or later, you've got to put the ball in the basket.

Bryant was back in 2 12 weeks when everyone thought his arm was broken, ... It didnt look so broken to people who saw him play.

It has never been in me to run away from a challenge. Anytime somebody said they are waiting for me, Im coming. You can bet on that. Im going to be mean and ornery when I see something that is wrong. And Im going to try to right it.

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

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

For any stellar player in our conference to get hurt, I really feel for that. I'm sorry to hear that.

This team makes more foul shots than any team in the nation has taken.

It was a common foul. That was all it was. It was a hard foul that every player in the world takes and every coach in the world takes.

The national media hurts the A-10 more than any other league. We're always looked at as a stepchild. Our TV situation doesn't help recruiting. That's a major reason I play the type of schedule that I do, for recruiting.

Our guys had trouble making baskets. And our guys had trouble trying to get the ball to our shooters.

I'm really depressed and upset. When you can't answer with your head, you try to use your physical ability. You can't play like that. You have to use your head.

The league's trying to make sure that we continue to sell ourselves. When our league plays top teams in the country, that's how we're going to get it done.

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.

Nehemiah Ingram is a great guy and everybody loves him and when he comes back from football, where he has changed positions multiple times but hasn't played yet for the Owls, we'll probably start him every ball game. He'll be better and maybe we'll be better from it.

I told him he better not have any turnovers because if he does hes not going to come back and play basketball,

Of course they earned them. They make more free throws per game than any other team in the country attempts. That's because they're a great team.

Our body of work speaks for itself. I've always built a tough schedule that I hope has us playing better at the end of the year.

When it suddenly happens, they're going to surprise some people. Believe me, there's some talent on that floor. They're going to get it done. By tournament time, this is not a team I want to play.

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.

We struggled with one guy making baskets throughout the game and yet we were able to stay in there. But (Duke) has so many ways to hurt you.

In all my years I've never had a team that's had this much talent in five players. But they seem to see a game out of a telescope instead of binoculars. They don't see the whole floor. They're penetrating when they should be passing. They're passing it when they should be penetrating. They're forgetting the role of every player, and that's to communicate with one another.

Not just athletes, but guys who have an acumen, an ability to play this game.

I will not be here (tonight), but I have a coaching staff that will meet that challenge. I have no doubt about it. I just have to deal with a personal problem (today).

I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down and now is that time. I want to thank Temple University, its fans and community for allowing me to do what I love for so long. It has never been a job for me, but a passion.

What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is a diamond. A diamond, whether it's man-made or comes from coal, is a result of pressure. I wanted them to understand the more pressure is put on you, the more of a diamond you can become

Some sports fans would like to know whether that's true before they decide to root for Tyson. I don't find it easy to root for people just because they win, ... I find it easy to root for people because there's something about their attitude.

No man stands up. You know what I said to him. I wouldn't want my mother to hear it.

When you really think about it, you hope that the new coach will be somebody who has a better image, or is in your image -- Franny has a better image than me. There is not a better coach.

You have to approach every game with a positive attitude. When we've had success in the tournament, we've always ended the season in a positive way. We need to win that first game to get over everything. Win that first game and then it's up to us as coaches to trick them after that.

It's always a very traumatic time, but it is time. Temple gave me a chance to make my own decision and that's the great thing about it. Right now I'm faced with another problem with my wife, so it's the right time to go.

(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 am very, very sorry about this terrible tragedy. We are trying to reach out to his family. We are all very saddened about this.

It certainly is just outstanding that we get a home game after all of these years of playing in the NIT, and we are honored that we are invited to participate in one of the greatest all-time traditional tournaments.

You've got to have a Temple person who knows this university.

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