Ara Parseghian Quotes

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

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

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.

I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

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

A lot of the kids gave a lot of positive feedback about if I ever became a coach, they would love to play in our program. And I was very confident that we would be able to get the top-tier players to come in.

I'm really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

I think there's a lot of talent in the Big 12. I think there's a lot of good football teams. It's tough to play in the Big 12.

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.

Sometimes fans... they want more and more and more, and they think you win a national championship every year. It doesn't work that way.