John Chaney Quotes (70 Quotes)

It was a hell of a game. Both teams played well, played extremely well.

We tried to make them play faster. When you drive your car fast, you are going to get in more accidents.

There's no question about the difference he makes when he's on the floor. He's increased his minutes on the floor from 10 to 15 minutes. We're always trying to manage his time, getting him to come back slowly. He makes a lot of difference when he's underneath the basket .The other team has to respect him being there. We just didn't have that in earlier games.

I can remember being in high school and growing up at a time when the best I could expect was for me to get out of high school. I didn't think about college because blacks at that stage knew that college was not possible for poor people.

Our players on the outside, when they make baskets, it answers a lot of questions for us. When we don't make baskets, we're not a good team at all.

His heart is in the image of his coach.

We are blessed to bring back one of the finest young men to play basketball here at Temple University as an assistant coach. Mark is a remarkable man, both on and off the court, and our young players can truly learn something from being around him.

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Any game we win is an ugly win.

They made shots. It is just that simple. We couldn't stop them. We didn't put enough pressure on the ball, even though we stretched out the defense. We let guys get off, and we dug ourselves a hole early in the first half.

I thought both teams played excellent and stood up to the moment. It was a great moment in Philadelphia basketball as far as I'm concerned.

Theyre not an ordinary team by any means. (The late) Jim Maloney said that shooters solve all your problems, and they have shooters. Villanova deserves to be No. 1 because no one can shoot the ball as well as the four players they have on the court, not even (No. 1) Duke.

I hope they straighten it out. I hope you get him back. Make him do something. Tie him to a chain and put him out there with the dogs and give him a bone with no meat on it. Do something. If you want me to come and put a whip on his (bleep), I'll do that. Tell him I said it. If you need me to fly up here and kick his (bleep), I'll do it.

I think we have to win our tournament. Normally, a committee looks at how you finish. They already have us down as a team that's capable of beating some top teams.

How am I going to be when the bell rings for the following season I don't care how old you are, that's always going to be something that's there in your head and in your heart. As long as you know that you're leaving the program in good hands, you can walk away and not have ill feelings.

Phil and I resolved it. We sent money to Katrina (the hurricane relief fund). That's what we did to resolve it. But if you want to keep singing that same song, go ahead. Philadelphia don't let nothing go. You guys don't let nothing go. I'm a lightning rod in this city and I know it. . . . Without me you don't have any news.

too far in talking to the media about the incident. It would have gone away if I had not used some of the words that I used to the media and the media hadn't acted as if they had never heard them before. They felt I had suggested to intentionally send in someone to hurt somebody.

Aw hell, I want you to have it, but it's against NCAA rules

The fans are bad everywhere you go, with language, and with behavior. You can't put enough cops in the stands, but you ought to give the cops cameras, give people cameras, so they can take a picture of the idiot and you can identify him.

It's amazing to me that we don't seem to learn lessons when mistakes are made. ... Words that are spoken are simply lies and very few of us will call it like it is. ... Many of our leaders fail us. They find themselves saying things to make people feel good and many people fall for it.