Become Quote by Ara Parseghian

It would have been easy to settle back into being an assistant, but I took a risk. I've always seen myself as a head…

— Rick Carlisle

I would like to go straight into being a head coach. When that day comes I'll be ready for it. No sense in learning…

— Mark Jackson

As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a…

— Nick Nurse

I didn't do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.

— Penny Hardaway

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

— Adam Oates

I was fine if I lived to be 100 and died and never have an opportunity to be a head coach because I was…

— Mark Jackson

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made…

— Marco van Basten

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

— Kelvin Sampson

Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach

— Tommy Amaker

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to…

— Anne Donovan

You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

— Tony DiCicco

I wasn't in a rush to become a head coach. I really wasn't.

— Brian Flores