Coach Quotes

“If it had taken me all those years to recover from our first kiss, how was I going to walk away from this one?”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I'd listen to them laugh for the rest of of my life over any music”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“When I’d made the wrong choice for myself. And the right one for my daughter.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“When she was in the room, I struggled to look anywhere but at her.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“It was like the colour he'd brought into my home with his laugh. Ford's kiss was a symphony of blue and green and red and yellow. A kaleidoscope”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“My imagination wasn't rich enough to afford this kiss”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Then something dawned and her attention swung to her father. “Daddy, isn’t this the lady in that picture on your bookshelf?”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Hey, Mills.” I swallowed hard. He was the only person in the world who called me Mills. “Hey, Ford.” “Long time.” Ten years and three months. But who’s counting?”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“She’d be the last. The last woman I’d kiss until the end of my days. It was Millie. It always had been Millie.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Long time.” Ten years and three months. But who’s counting?”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Closure? That was not what our discussion at the brewery had been about. We’d needed to clear the air. I’d needed to tell her my side of the story and hear hers. Yeah, I’d wanted to mend the past. But closure? “Fuck no.” This wasn’t over. The game hadn’t even started yet.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Closure? That was not what our discussion at the brewery had been about. We’d needed to clear the air. I’d needed to tell her my side of the story and hear hers. Yeah, I’d wanted to mend the past. But closure? “Fuck no.” This wasn’t over.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Millie might want to see the photo Joey had mentioned at the alumni fundraiser, and I didn’t want her to know that, at the moment, that photo was the only item on my bookshelf.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“See you around, Millie.” My Millie. Except she wasn’t mine anymore, was she? I’d lost her a long time ago when I’d walked away.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t stop staring at her. Millie. My Millie.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Millie is an assistant AD,” Kurt said. Hold up. Did that make her my boss?”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“She was my best friend. But damn, I wanted to kiss her. To say to hell with our friendship and see what we could make of this spark between us.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I don’t want to hurt you, Mills, I don’t know where this is going, but I’d like the chance to find out. If you’re up for it.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Red is the color of the enemy.” You wouldn’t catch me in anything that might be misconstrued as a Grizzly shade.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“We could finish the year with a losing record and no hope of making the playoffs, but as long as we beat the Grizzlies, the fans and alumni would call it a victory.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I’ll count this year a win if we can beat the Grizzlies,”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Night, babe.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“And jogged away.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I want you to like me,” I blurted. Her cheeks flushed as she gave me a shy smile. “I like you. A lot.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I thought that’s what we just did.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“She beat me.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Did that make her my boss?”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“told you to stop kissing me,” I whispered. Ford plucked the water bottle from my grip. “And I told you no.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“Again. Say my name again.” Her breath hitched. “Ford.”
― Devney Perry, Coach

“I rounded her desk, taking her chair and spinning it so she had to face me. Then I bent, my hands on the armrests, and did what I should have done earlier this morning. What I should have done a decade ago. What I should have done every day for the past ten years. I kissed my Millie.”
― Devney Perry, Coach