Assistants Quote by Patrick Ewing

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

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

— Bob Stoops

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

— Kelvin Sampson

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

— Penny Hardaway

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

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 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

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

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

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he…

— Chuck Pagano

One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.

— Nate Oats