Coach Quote by Mark Jackson

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

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become…

— Ara Parseghian

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

— Penny Hardaway

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

— Brian Flores

I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a…

— Ara Parseghian

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

I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

— Ara Parseghian

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

I never wanted to be a coach. But sometimes you think you know what you want, and then life happens.

— Dawn Staley

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

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.

— Martina Navratilova

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