Ryan Leaf Quotes

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

Matt LaFleur's a great coach.

Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.

At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

Marty Schottenheimer knows how to win, and that's what Redskins fans demand in a coach.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

Coach Coughlin, he's one of the best coaches I've ever had. He's one of the best coaches in the NFL, hands down.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

If head coaches weren't important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn't fire them all the time.

I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.