Head coach Quotes · Page 3

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

— David Fizdale

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

— Rajon Rondo

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

— Jimmy Johnson

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

— Troy Aikman

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

— Adam Oates

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

— Lonzo Ball

I am so excited to join Aston Villa and to reunite with Dean Smith as my head coach.

— Ollie Watkins

There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.

— Kelvin Sampson

When you're the head coach and you do what you do and you're winning enough and you never have anybody leave, you…

— Mack Brown

That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they…

— Nick Nurse

When you get into playing you strive for one thing, that's to be a Super Bowl champion. When you get into coaching,…

— Ron Rivera

I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really…

— Nick Nurse

As a head coach you have to think about the entire group with every decision you make. Up and down the line,…

— Mike Budenholzer

I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always…

— Bret Bielema

There are things that I will think about, that I have been a part of because I was the head coach at…

— Ben Howland

The NBA is a difficult thing because the head coaches, they definitely have one of the more difficult jobs and one of…

— Joe Harris

The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something…

— Simon Barnes

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an…

— John Madden

People say crazy things. Some people think Penn State called me with some ridiculous financial offer to take over as head coach.…

— Cael Sanderson

There are a whole load of different pressures that go with being the head coach, manager, whatever you want to call it.…

— Steve Nicol

If you break down actual techniques and knowledge of MMA, I am more knowledgeable than the head coaches of all the guys…

— Frank Mir

The thing I enjoy the most about being the head coach is that I get to create the climate. I get to…

— Dabo Swinney

“The grade’s head coach was named Bob Baime, but Adam always thought of him as Gaston, the animated character from Disney’s Beauty…

— Harlan Coben

The Wyoming game in 1974, my third year as head coach. My first year, we were 7-4; the second year, we went…

— LaVell Edwards

I listen to the head coach, Thomas Tuchel, who has a very interesting philosophy and vision of football.

— Edouard Mendy

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

— Ryan Tannehill

When I was in Portland, they started pushing me to do more media when they thought I was going to be a…

— Monty Williams

My dream was to be an assistant college coach, maybe a head coach, maybe at a Division III school.

— Mike Budenholzer

There's a difference between being a head coach and in control of the whole team and the whole organization at the time.

— Darrelle Revis

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Doc Rivers kind of told me I'd be a head coach one day. I just kind of looked at him like he…

— Monty Williams

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

— Sean McVay

I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.

— Zac Taylor

I try to work out. As an assistant, it was a lot easier to work out. Then as a head coach, not…

— Tom Thibodeau

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

— Rex Ryan

“Tony Dungy, the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers—one of the worst teams in the National Football League,”

— Charles Duhigg

I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head…

— Ryan Leaf

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

— Luther Strange

It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

— Will Muschamp

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

— Jon Gruden