Anybody Up For A Game of Famous Genoisms?

[RockyMTblue2]

I'll go first:

"I didn't bring you here to pass!" She almost drove him nutty. In the end friends for life.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Here I am hung out to dry! Okay, I'm going to start using them up.

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

 

[Cuango]

My favorite is when he said he nixed the pantyhose cause he got tired of wearing them!

 

[oldhusky]

He likes foreign player's parents because they are 7,000 miles away!

 

[oldhusky]

You couldn't guard a chair!

 

[hoopsfan22]

You got one more rebound than a dead guy.

 

[Bald Husky]

I didn't want to put you in but there was nobody else left.

 

[Monte]

"It is what it is."

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Overheard at a sparsely attended Big East Tourney game at Rutgers - "She's a Human Foul" (Kelly Schumacher) and "No more Foreigners" (Svet). It was a game where UConn won handily, their first in the tourney so not against tough competition.

It was a quotable tournament - Harry dropped a few great lines prompting fans to urge him to "take his pills". There is something to be said for an occasional sparsely attended game where you can hear the coaches.

 

[Bald Husky]

You are the worst post player in the country. Said to Kara Walters after saying it for two years to Rebecca Lobo.

 

[jimazee]

Geno on Maria Conlon "She has that great combination: She may be short, but she is slow.''

For those who may not remember Maria, she was the 5'8" point guard from Derby, CT. on the 2003-2004 national championship team.

UConn's Conlon rolls with punches

Geno Auriemma's best jabs often come at Maria Conlon's expense. But the Husky senior has the last laugh.

www.espn.com

 

[oldude]

"It is what it is."

Can’t attribute that to Geno alone. Every Italian says that. I heard it from my father growing up and now I use it with my son.

 

[HuskyNan]

My all time favorite: Geno,after being asked about being booed at the Rutgers Athletic Center said, “It could have been my wife. I know she was sitting behind me.”

 

[oldude]

Something more recent that Geno said when complementing Maddy Siegrist, “Anytime you have the best player on the court, you have a chance to win. Believe me I know!”

 

[RockyMTblue2]

He's often asked whether he puts too much pressure on his players. Here's one reply:

"Pressure is when somebody asks you to do something you can't do. To me, that's pressure."

But this is the same Geno who said: "With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things."

To be fair he can't remember them all!

 

[Kaizen]

We have (...) and they don't.

(...) : can be DT or Sue or Maya or Breanna or Paige

 

[UcMiami]

I'll go first:

"I didn't bring you here to pass!" She almost drove him nutty. In the end friends for life.

Actually I thought this was a Svetism - 'I didn't come 7,000 miles to pass.'

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Found this useful thought.

“Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.”

 

[hard2please]

i believe this was uttered by geno only once?: "______ is really really really good"

 

[ctbbfn]

Rutgers fans were born miserable and they'll die miserable

 

[HuskylnSC]

Actually I thought this was a Svetism - 'I didn't come 7,000 miles to pass.'

I understand it to be from Sveta and am under the impression it was, "Set pick! I not come 9,000 to set pick." Also said with attitude

 

[BullDawg]

After a game against USF in which he replaced all five starters, in the post game interview he said something like “you’ve got a new way of coaching players. You have to ask them if they want to play hard and if they say no, there’s nothing you can do about it.”.

He’s always the most entertaining post-game interview.

 

[UConnCat]

About Maria Conlon:

Then when asked why he recruited her, Auriemma said, "I have no idea. When I watched Maria in high school, she was never happy on court. She has got a miserable on-court demeanor. If she were a doctor, she would have no patients.''

 

[UConnCat]

Geno benched Taurasi after she received a technical (her only one in college) for clapping in the face of Rutgers player Tasha Pointer (trash-talker extraordinaire). Geno told the team why he benched Taurasi:

"There's room for only one jerk on this team and that's me."

 

[MilfordHusky]

Geno benched Taurasi after she received a technical (her only one in college) for clapping in the face of Rutgers player Tasha Pointer (trash-talker extraordinaire). Geno told the team why he benched Taurasi:

"There's room for only one jerk on this team and that's me."

To Kaleena in her freshman year, "There's room for only one wise-ass on this team, and that's me."

 

[tjhusky]

Two I recall attributed to Dianna
She made an amazing no look pass in a game. When asked about it after the game Geno said “she was looking at me and I knew I wasn’t getting the pass.

After another almost perfect game by Dianna she was all excited and Geno said of course she’s excited, she just tied her personal record for offensive rebounds at Zero.

 

[FormerCTrez]

Thanks for all these submissions. I enjoyed them all!

 

[Bald Husky]

We do not teach effort here, that's for other coaches to worry about.

 

[NEforceUConn]

I enjoyed his comments about Tennessee, Yankees and the evil empire.

Unfortunately I can’t find exact quote.

 

[jdote33]