Coaches' corner.

FOR WINNERS ONLY...

To be a champion in anything, you have to be able to get up off the floor when you can't.

- Teddy Roosevelt

TONY KORNHEISER, of the Washington Post, after Tiger Woods and Mark O'Hara fired their caddies because they hadn't won any tournaments lately: "That's like asking the Apple people to replace your computer because you failed to win the Pulitzer Prize."

RANDY JOHNSON, on how he handles frustration on the golf course: "I tell myself that Jack Nicklaus had a lousy fastball."

LESLEY VISSER, the TV commentator, when she knew that her romance with P.J. Carlesimo was over: "When we were flying home from the Final Four, we were the only two passengers in first class, and not once did he look up from Dick Versace's book on the 1-3-1 defense."

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece: "Was that the joint with free valet parking?"

BOB UECKER, baseball wit, on the most comforting thought of a big-league manager: "Knowing that you have the same average job-survival rate as the migrant fruit picker - two and a half years."

MIKE LUPICA, sports columnist, on the difference between the old-type fan and the modern fan: "The old-time fan used to yell, 'Kill the umpire!' The modern fan tries to do it."

SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, after watching Sonny Liston demolish Floyd Patterson with a single punch to the side of the head: "I always knew that Patterson had a glass ear."

TOM HAWKINS, TV basketball analyst, on the legendary John Wooden: "He remains a beacon in a world of flashlights."

TOMMY HEINSOHN, on how close he came to playing pro football rather than pro basketball: "When I heard I was being drafted by the Green Bay Packers, I warned them that I would never play anything outdoors in the Green Bay winter time."

BUM PHILLIPS, Houston Oilers coach, when asked why his line coach always took his wife with him on road trips: "Because she was too homely to kiss goodbye."

BOB COSTAS, on why Mark McGwire was named Chairman of National Bible Week last summer: "Doesn't the Bible start with the words, 'In the big inning...?"

LOU BOUDREAU, Hall of Fame shortstop/manager, counseling his slugger, Larry Doby, whose proudest boast was that he owned right-hand pitching after Doby had just been farmed four times by a right-handed thrower: "It's okay, Larry, that wasn't a right-hand pitcher, it was Bob Feller."

BOB HOPE, describing the golf game of Sammy Davis, the world's greatest entertainer and jewelry wearer: "He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150."

JOE MONTANA, on the coach who influenced him most as a forward passer: "It was my college quarterback coach. He told me, 'Joe, I want you to remember this about defensive linemen: 'the bigger they are, the harder they hit.'"