Coach Quote by Billy Donovan

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

— Morgan Wootten

And I loved every single second of being an assistant coach. I loved it.

— Doris Burke

In middle school, I had a great coach that coached us in both football and basketball and kind of set the foundation. Even through…

— Jordy Nelson

I worked hard at it, because I find being a coach a great and interesting job.

— Marco van Basten

I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know…

— Nick Nurse

I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan…

— Jack Ramsay

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

— Penny Hardaway

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever,…

— Bart Starr

I had great high school coaches.

— Colin Cowherd

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year,…

— Lou Holtz

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at…

— Darrell Royal

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