Kelvin Sampson Quotes

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

Coaching in the NBA is a tough trick.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

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

I don't want to coach in the NFL.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

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 said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

I'm an NBA basketball coach. I'm not an official, and I'm not trying to be an official.

I need a coaching job in the NBA. I'm restless and I need money.

All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball.

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.

People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.

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.

I don't think football management is easy.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.