Assistant coaches Quote by Lane Kiffin

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

— Tommy Amaker

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all…

— Don Meyer

I've been with some great head coaches, but also some great assistant coaches, too.

— Bob Stoops

Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the…

— J. B. Bickerstaff

I was in the right place at the right time.

— Mel Allen

I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get…

— Tony DiCicco

It was very interesting, when I went on the road and started recruiting college and I spoke to coaches around the country, of how…

— Billy Donovan

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

— Don Meyer

We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out…

— Masai Ujiri

One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an…

— Pat Connaughton

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

— Adam Oates

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

— Kelvin Sampson

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

— Dean Smith

You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way…

— John Starks

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

— Chris Mullin