COACHES' CORNER.

LOU HOLTZ, on how he got to be called The Great Motivator: "I always fired everybody I couldn't motivate."

TERRY SHEA, football coach at Rutgers: "I inform all the kids who swear they came here to die for dear old Rutgers that we're not looking for anyone who is going to play only one game for us."

BETH DANIEL, a star of the Women's Professional Golf Tour: "What a way to go to work every weekend -- having to beat the best 134 golfers in the world."

BABE HERMAN, after falling down on a ball hit straight at him, scrambling to his feet, trying to pick up the ball, fumbling it again, kicking it around some more, finally picking it up and throwing it home -- right over the backstop, upon trudging into the clubhouse and being asked, "What happened out there, Babe?" ... The Great Screwball thought about it for a moment, "When?" he sald.

LEO DUROCHER, captain of the all-bad-guy major league team: "I never sald you can't be a nice guy and win. All I said was that if I were playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run I would trip her."

JOE TORRE, on managing as a way of life: "When we lose, I can't sleep. When we win, I can't sleep, but I feel better in the morning."

WOODY HAYES, football coach extraordinaire, upon suffering a rare 24-0 defeat: "It was sickening. Nobody tried out there. We didn't even have to send the uniforms out to be cleaned. I told the players to sleep in them, just as they had done all afternoon."

FUZZY ZOELLER, golf pro, on the most monotonous sight in the wide world of golf: "Watching Tiger Woods going to the bank every Monday to deposit a check for $860,000."

TED TURNER, owner of everything: "If you can't lead or follow, the best thing to do is get the hell out of the way."

RICHIE ASHBUEN, after receiving 158 votes in the Hall of Fame balloting, up from 6 the previous year: "How could 152 people change their minds about me when I haven't had a base hit since 1962?"

DICK YOUNG, on watching an NFL team, accused of taking drugs, lose its ninth game in a row: "The only drug they can possibly be taking is formaldehyde."

KEITH JACKSON, on the prospect of interviewing UCLA's giant lineman, Manu Thiasosopo: "No problem. Manu took English as a foreign language in high school."

GUY KOCHEL, Arkansas State track coach, upon being congratulated for his team's runner-up finish: "If finishing second was so great, we'd only schedule dual meets,"

JIMMY CANNON, after Tami Mauriello, knocked out by Joe Louis in 24 seconds of the first round, claimed it was because he had been too damned careless: "Nobody in the history of mankind got that careless in just 24 seconds."

DUFFY DAUGHERTY, on the secret of coaching 84 football players: "It's exactly like polygamy -- you make everyone believe he's better than everyone else."

HANK AARON, upon being asked how he enjoyed his first game of golf: "Terrible. It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball, and only one afternoon to do it in golf."