Always Quote by Rick Carlisle

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

— Penny Hardaway

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

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

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

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'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

— John Madden

I was fine if I lived to be 100 and died and never have an opportunity to be a head coach because I was…

— Mark Jackson

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

— Doris Burke

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

— Brian Flores

Going back to being a head coach entails a full-time commitment to that job and I would not go into it for any amount…

— Bill Cowher

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

— David Fizdale

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

— Lee Majors