Chapter Quote by Jeanie Buss

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching…

— Frank Vogel

The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?'…

— B. J. Armstrong

If Phil Jackson came back, still no coachin' me.

— Kendrick Lamar

I've spent my entire life around coaches.

— Stan Van Gundy

I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

— Forrest Griffin

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that…

— Jeff Van Gundy

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

— Stan Van Gundy

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my…

— Lou Holtz

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached…

— Kirk Ferentz

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

— Herm Edwards

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

— Kelvin Sampson

When everything happened to my family, my focus was just take care of my children. That led me to believe I might not ever…

— Monty Williams