Ara Parseghian Quotes

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

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.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

Pellegrini gave me back the joy of playing football. He is like Arsene Wenger: someone who likes to joke, someone who likes to talk and take an interest in your life.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

I've had a lot of great coaches. I think Guus Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque are the ones closest to my style. I'm more friendly with the players than a 'formal' coach. I'm not a professor. I'm Roberto Carlos and I want to win with my players and I want them to help me by doing their job well.