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Quotes About Head coach

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.
~ Stan Van Gundy
As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.
~ Nick Nurse
As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.
~ Mickey Arthur
I know I have the abilities to be a head coach or D-coordinator. It's something I wouldn't mind doing. But it's tough being a player and going back and doing something like that, because egos get in the way.
~ Ed Reed
I try to work out. As an assistant, it was a lot easier to work out. Then as a head coach, not as much as I should have.
~ Tom Thibodeau
For the first time in Rex Ryan's career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.
~ Sterling Sharpe
I said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.
~ Nick Nurse
What happens in college is every year, or every two years, sometimes every three, you get a new flock of graduate assistants that come in even though the head coach remains the same.
~ Sean McDermott
My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.
~ Nick Nurse
I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.
~ Jon Gruden
I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.
~ Kelvin Sampson
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
~ Don Shula
These five-and-a-half seasons I was working with Ajax as the head coach, and four-and-a-half as the trainer of the academy, it cost me less energy than the eight months of Inter and Crystal Palace.
~ Frank de Boer
This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.
~ Jason Kidd
I will miss the ladies and the passion of the Sun fans. I was proud to serve as their head coach.
~ Anne Donovan
I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.
~ Ron Jaworski
To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.
~ Kirby Smart
Well, I love being a head coach. And when my kids were younger, it just didn't feel right at the time. I was happy where I was. I actually got away from football for a couple years until I figured out how much I missed it.
~ Ed McCaffrey
I was approached by Sue Campbell to give my thoughts on whether I'd be interested in being the next head coach of the women's national team. Straight away, I was unbelievably excited and honoured to be approached by Sue.
~ Phil Neville
I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.
~ Nick Nurse
I'm delighted and incredibly proud to be appointed as head coach of Newcastle United.
~ Steve Bruce
I think there's a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.
~ Tim Howard
I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.
~ Ara Parseghian
I don't care about what people think about me that don't know me. But the one thing that bothers me of all the places is the general perception was that I was a failure at USC as a head coach.
~ Lane Kiffin