Dwane Casey Quotes

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.

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.

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 think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

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 be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

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

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

It's difficult to be a coach.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.