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BRENDAN MALONE I have a tremendous staff. Any of them could have been the head coach, if not for the rule about hav...
JUNIOR GRAHAM I had opportunities to be a head coach and to be an assistant, actually some pro opportunities. But ...
BOB TOLEDO Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
ADAM OATES I didn't even have an interview. I was lucky in that regard to be able to start my career as a head ...
BOB MATTINGLY If I crashed into a telephone pole and (assistant coach) Steve Barnes was coach, the program would b...
LARRY EUSTACHY Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much ...
LANCE REYNOLDS![]()
I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from be...
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Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that ...
JOHN MADDEN When I am on the field, I am an assistant coach responsible to the head coach and I convey that atti...
DAVID ROE![]()
Mike has been a superb ambassador for Canisius College and has made significant contributions to the...
BILL MAHER I haven't thought about doing anything else other than being the head football coach at Valley West....
ED MICHAELS I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coa...
DAVID ARMOUR She always been an assistant (in club) and she never said much, but every once in a while (as head c...
LINDSY EVANS We were taken aback by it. She was our head coach for the past two years. It was such a shock to hea...
BRIANN MCDONOUGH I'm a graduate of Hoover, I've been an assistant or head coach the last nine years and I have never ...
CHARLES ZANDERS I wanted to be aggressive. I have talked with (assistant) coach ( Mike ) Jackson about being aggress...
DANIEL HORTON My favorites are probably some pictures of Coach Mac (former LSU football coach Charlie McClendon) a...
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Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
PEYTON MANNING It takes Tice out of the position of being a head coach,
CRIS COLLINSWORTH Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section cha...
BOB HERMAN We certainly have a proven, capable, successful NHL head coach as our head coach in the American Hoc...
JOHN FERGUSON![]()
I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually l...
TONY DUNGY Nobody was more surprised than (assistant coach) Bob (Musser) and I.
ELDON HOY![]()
(Davis) remembers him when we drafted him, remembers him as a player, as an assistant coach, as a he...
JOHN MADDEN It's certainly not in the job description, ... The good thing is I've been a head coach for 15 years...
BRIAN KELLY I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's ...
ANDY SCHMITZ It could be as an assistant athletic director, an associate athletic director, a coach, even somebod...
WAYNE CLOUGH![]()
Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether...
RICK PITINO We went on a tour and met the assistant coach and I really liked her.
MEGAN HILL I prepared in the long run, conditioning and training, with Coach Cochrane and Christina Winkler, ou...
SEAN BERGSTEDT I look at her and talk to her as an assistant coach at times. She doesn't say a lot to the other pla...
AL SORRENTINO Coach Battle was a good coach. I think he may have ended up being a great coach if he hadn't been so...
DAVID PARSONS I've always had [the jumper]. [Assistant coach Ron Adams] said if I'm open I can take it, so that ga...
LUKE SCHENSCHER I was the head coach and he was the assistant. That's not a concern. We're both here for the same re...
BOB TOLEDO He brings so much insight. He's seen it from both sides from what a head coach needs to know and wha...
MATT HERRING I saw my brother Chet (now a South assistant coach) and his friends stuck together from football, .....
ERIK HANSON I have been coaching there [the] last three years as the pitching coach with [head coach] Matt Cleve...
STEVE ROSENBERG There's the guy to ask (about being a head coach) right there. He's been king before. I've never bee...
MIKE TRGOVAC Coach Davis … is primarily a defensive coach, ... I think that's where most of his background is. ...
BILL BELICHICK![]()
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&...
PATRICK EWING The main reason I chose Illinois was because of the coaching staff. They are different from other st...
MARQUES WILKINS I got pretty close. Ultimately, I thought about it more as an athlete than as a coach. Not being a D...
HALLIE COHEN The combination of having experience, very good athletes, and then [assistant coach Corrie Hill] bei...
CONNIE CLARK![]()
[March 21, pot shot: What ex-Indiana coach Bob Knight took at current Hoosiers head man Mike Davis, ...
BOB KNIGHT He was my right-hand man, no question. He worked with me most of the time as my offensive line coach...
BILL MARION He knows his stuff and he probably would be in the pros if he didn't get hurt. Definitely a good guy...
LUKE HARDCASTLE It was nice to see [that kind of offense]. Whenever you can play long ball, it takes pressure off yo...
DAVE PETROSKY I just wish he would have raped someone and been convicted. Then, he could probably still coach for ...
PATRICK CALLAHAN I had my assistant coach (Heather Jordan) make out the lineup and I don't know what she said to them...
DAVID LAVEN Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of...
JIM BOEHEIM When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as...
CHUCK PAGANO (Assistant) coach (Jon) Owen and I have been telling them since two-a-days that our offense is going...
JOE LEVENS I don't have enough credentials to be the full-time guy, but I am the assistant offensive line coach...
BUTCH DAVIS We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'...
JOHN WHISENANT You're the head coach. Some of the stuff is out of your control, whether it's an injury, whatever th...
KYLE MACY He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach.
KEVYN ADAMS The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE Hey, the head coach is over here.
ROY WILLIAMS I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the...
KIRBY SMART I think (head coach Bill) Cowher does a good job of telling everybody, 'I don't care where you came ...
DAN KREIDER If Andy is not made the full-time head coach, recruiting will be hurt and difficult times are ahead ...
LANCE MCCALLISTER It didn't make a difference to me who was coaching them, whether it was Eileen or a parent or an ass...
TOM LYNCH Five coaches in six years, there's been no stability here. I've got a point guard who's had a differ...
COLEMAN BATES I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as...
JOSH MCDANIELS The firing of my assistant was nothing but a political pay back because I stated the facts and the l...
LORI MONTAG It was a lot different. Last year I used to get the defensive calls from [former assistant coach] Da...
ANDREW FODERA I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
ANATOLI BOUKREEV [Cooper starts her second year as head coach Tuesday night when the Colts visit Class 4A Cienega, fe...
AMY COOPER I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result of the grow...
LAVELL EDWARDS (Iowa head coach) Dave Allison has been playing his four lines a lot more than me. I don't see fatig...
CLAUDE NOEL That's a question you have to ask (Coach) Peter Nowak. The head coach is the one handling the team, ...
KEVIN PAYNE I don't know how I could ever thank Coach Chaney enough. I know him as well as anyone in the world. ...
DAN LEIBOVITZ![]()
I believe he'll be a good head coach in the league someday.
MIKE DITKA![]()
We've got that in mind. We know he has a lot of pressure on him being a rookie head coach. But we do...
LEBRON JAMES The time I went there, they weren't near the team they are now, ... A different environment, complet...
STEVE SPURRIER A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS This is an exciting time for Nevada football and Wolf Pack athletics. I am committed to achieving at...
CHRIS AULT I didn't always dream of being an actor - I started out as an assistant director, so doing things aw...
AJAY DEVGAN No. 1 was the coaching staff. I had a great relationship with (associate head coach) Fred Hill and I...
COURTNEY NELSON It's not like promoting an assistant coach who has never been there. He's done it in several places ...
STEVE MCKINNEY![]()
It's great. But it's all about those teams that won it, ... I've got a mentor in [assistant coach] T...
PHIL JACKSON I remember one time (Ozark assistant) coach (Kevin) Armstrong was going to take me to a tryout for a...
WILL KITCHEN![]()
(Assistant coach) Phil Crowe got him on the bike when he was injured, and (Adams) came back 100 perc...
CHRIS STEWART I hope the rumor is true. If I am replaced it works to my advantage. It's predetermined that if I'm ...
WES SUAN We knew we had a running game, but you have to give those guys up front and [assistant] coach Dan Gu...
DOUG PHILLIPS If I had a brain in my head I'd quit right now. I'm not going to be as good a coach next year.
BOB VAUGHAN We've tried to bring fun back to the game and the girls have latched on to us. We (Williams and assi...
BRYAN WILLIAMS![]()
Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more suc...
BOB MCNAIR I thank you guys for having the vision to make me your head coach.
ERIC MANGINI I see a coach who worked at it, studied other coaches, who was driven to be a good coach overall, .....
VINCE DOOLEY When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
ARA PARSEGHIAN The only person in the program that is allowed to think about or talk about Oklahoma is (assistant h...
BILL FENNELLY I was probably harder on them than I should have been, but I would say anyone that has a chance to c...
FRANK SPURCHISE Being named head coach is an honor, and it's something that I've looked forward to. Honestly, I can'...
MATT PETHERICK We had a good mix of talent, but I was coming off coaching boys and in my first year as head coach. ...
JIM COLE I had a concern about the fact I have got a coach under contract who I felt was being targeted.
BRIAN WALDRON We're fortunate to have a head coach with the caliber of coach White to join our staff. She has buil...
JAY HINRICHS
DAN LAKE I have been more an assistant than a head coach, but it is more fun being a head coach. It is more a...
BRENDAN MALONE I have a tremendous staff. Any of them could have been the head coach, if not for the rule about hav...
JUNIOR GRAHAM I had opportunities to be a head coach and to be an assistant, actually some pro opportunities. But ...
BOB TOLEDO Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
ADAM OATES I didn't even have an interview. I was lucky in that regard to be able to start my career as a head ...
BOB MATTINGLY If I crashed into a telephone pole and (assistant coach) Steve Barnes was coach, the program would b...
LARRY EUSTACHY Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much ...
LANCE REYNOLDS
I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from be... ALLEN IVERSON
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that ... JOHN MADDEN When I am on the field, I am an assistant coach responsible to the head coach and I convey that atti...
DAVID ROE
Mike has been a superb ambassador for Canisius College and has made significant contributions to the... BILL MAHER I haven't thought about doing anything else other than being the head football coach at Valley West....
ED MICHAELS I was nervous because any time you start a new program and you're new yourself into being a head coa...
DAVID ARMOUR She always been an assistant (in club) and she never said much, but every once in a while (as head c...
LINDSY EVANS We were taken aback by it. She was our head coach for the past two years. It was such a shock to hea...
BRIANN MCDONOUGH I'm a graduate of Hoover, I've been an assistant or head coach the last nine years and I have never ...
CHARLES ZANDERS I wanted to be aggressive. I have talked with (assistant) coach ( Mike ) Jackson about being aggress...
DANIEL HORTON My favorites are probably some pictures of Coach Mac (former LSU football coach Charlie McClendon) a...
CHRIS RICH
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not. PEYTON MANNING It takes Tice out of the position of being a head coach,
CRIS COLLINSWORTH Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section cha...
BOB HERMAN We certainly have a proven, capable, successful NHL head coach as our head coach in the American Hoc...
JOHN FERGUSON
I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually l... TONY DUNGY Nobody was more surprised than (assistant coach) Bob (Musser) and I.
ELDON HOY
(Davis) remembers him when we drafted him, remembers him as a player, as an assistant coach, as a he... JOHN MADDEN It's certainly not in the job description, ... The good thing is I've been a head coach for 15 years...
BRIAN KELLY I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's ...
ANDY SCHMITZ It could be as an assistant athletic director, an associate athletic director, a coach, even somebod...
WAYNE CLOUGH
Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether... RICK PITINO We went on a tour and met the assistant coach and I really liked her.
MEGAN HILL I prepared in the long run, conditioning and training, with Coach Cochrane and Christina Winkler, ou...
SEAN BERGSTEDT I look at her and talk to her as an assistant coach at times. She doesn't say a lot to the other pla...
AL SORRENTINO Coach Battle was a good coach. I think he may have ended up being a great coach if he hadn't been so...
DAVID PARSONS I've always had [the jumper]. [Assistant coach Ron Adams] said if I'm open I can take it, so that ga...
LUKE SCHENSCHER I was the head coach and he was the assistant. That's not a concern. We're both here for the same re...
BOB TOLEDO He brings so much insight. He's seen it from both sides from what a head coach needs to know and wha...
MATT HERRING I saw my brother Chet (now a South assistant coach) and his friends stuck together from football, .....
ERIK HANSON I have been coaching there [the] last three years as the pitching coach with [head coach] Matt Cleve...
STEVE ROSENBERG There's the guy to ask (about being a head coach) right there. He's been king before. I've never bee...
MIKE TRGOVAC Coach Davis … is primarily a defensive coach, ... I think that's where most of his background is. ...
BILL BELICHICK
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&... PATRICK EWING The main reason I chose Illinois was because of the coaching staff. They are different from other st...
MARQUES WILKINS I got pretty close. Ultimately, I thought about it more as an athlete than as a coach. Not being a D...
HALLIE COHEN The combination of having experience, very good athletes, and then [assistant coach Corrie Hill] bei...
CONNIE CLARK
[March 21, pot shot: What ex-Indiana coach Bob Knight took at current Hoosiers head man Mike Davis, ... BOB KNIGHT He was my right-hand man, no question. He worked with me most of the time as my offensive line coach...
BILL MARION He knows his stuff and he probably would be in the pros if he didn't get hurt. Definitely a good guy...
LUKE HARDCASTLE It was nice to see [that kind of offense]. Whenever you can play long ball, it takes pressure off yo...
DAVE PETROSKY I just wish he would have raped someone and been convicted. Then, he could probably still coach for ...
PATRICK CALLAHAN I had my assistant coach (Heather Jordan) make out the lineup and I don't know what she said to them...
DAVID LAVEN Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of...
JIM BOEHEIM When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as...
CHUCK PAGANO (Assistant) coach (Jon) Owen and I have been telling them since two-a-days that our offense is going...
JOE LEVENS I don't have enough credentials to be the full-time guy, but I am the assistant offensive line coach...
BUTCH DAVIS We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'...
JOHN WHISENANT You're the head coach. Some of the stuff is out of your control, whether it's an injury, whatever th...
KYLE MACY He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach.
KEVYN ADAMS The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE Hey, the head coach is over here.
ROY WILLIAMS I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the...
KIRBY SMART I think (head coach Bill) Cowher does a good job of telling everybody, 'I don't care where you came ...
DAN KREIDER If Andy is not made the full-time head coach, recruiting will be hurt and difficult times are ahead ...
LANCE MCCALLISTER It didn't make a difference to me who was coaching them, whether it was Eileen or a parent or an ass...
TOM LYNCH Five coaches in six years, there's been no stability here. I've got a point guard who's had a differ...
COLEMAN BATES I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as...
JOSH MCDANIELS The firing of my assistant was nothing but a political pay back because I stated the facts and the l...
LORI MONTAG It was a lot different. Last year I used to get the defensive calls from [former assistant coach] Da...
ANDREW FODERA I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
ANATOLI BOUKREEV [Cooper starts her second year as head coach Tuesday night when the Colts visit Class 4A Cienega, fe...
AMY COOPER I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result of the grow...
LAVELL EDWARDS (Iowa head coach) Dave Allison has been playing his four lines a lot more than me. I don't see fatig...
CLAUDE NOEL That's a question you have to ask (Coach) Peter Nowak. The head coach is the one handling the team, ...
KEVIN PAYNE I don't know how I could ever thank Coach Chaney enough. I know him as well as anyone in the world. ...
DAN LEIBOVITZ
I believe he'll be a good head coach in the league someday. MIKE DITKA
We've got that in mind. We know he has a lot of pressure on him being a rookie head coach. But we do... LEBRON JAMES The time I went there, they weren't near the team they are now, ... A different environment, complet...
STEVE SPURRIER A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS This is an exciting time for Nevada football and Wolf Pack athletics. I am committed to achieving at...
CHRIS AULT I didn't always dream of being an actor - I started out as an assistant director, so doing things aw...
AJAY DEVGAN No. 1 was the coaching staff. I had a great relationship with (associate head coach) Fred Hill and I...
COURTNEY NELSON It's not like promoting an assistant coach who has never been there. He's done it in several places ...
STEVE MCKINNEY
It's great. But it's all about those teams that won it, ... I've got a mentor in [assistant coach] T... PHIL JACKSON I remember one time (Ozark assistant) coach (Kevin) Armstrong was going to take me to a tryout for a...
WILL KITCHEN
(Assistant coach) Phil Crowe got him on the bike when he was injured, and (Adams) came back 100 perc... CHRIS STEWART I hope the rumor is true. If I am replaced it works to my advantage. It's predetermined that if I'm ...
WES SUAN We knew we had a running game, but you have to give those guys up front and [assistant] coach Dan Gu...
DOUG PHILLIPS If I had a brain in my head I'd quit right now. I'm not going to be as good a coach next year.
BOB VAUGHAN We've tried to bring fun back to the game and the girls have latched on to us. We (Williams and assi...
BRYAN WILLIAMS
Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more suc... BOB MCNAIR I thank you guys for having the vision to make me your head coach.
ERIC MANGINI I see a coach who worked at it, studied other coaches, who was driven to be a good coach overall, .....
VINCE DOOLEY When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
ARA PARSEGHIAN The only person in the program that is allowed to think about or talk about Oklahoma is (assistant h...
BILL FENNELLY I was probably harder on them than I should have been, but I would say anyone that has a chance to c...
FRANK SPURCHISE Being named head coach is an honor, and it's something that I've looked forward to. Honestly, I can'...
MATT PETHERICK We had a good mix of talent, but I was coming off coaching boys and in my first year as head coach. ...
JIM COLE I had a concern about the fact I have got a coach under contract who I felt was being targeted.
BRIAN WALDRON We're fortunate to have a head coach with the caliber of coach White to join our staff. She has buil...
JAY HINRICHS
