Assistant Coach Quotes

I'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.

There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.

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

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.

That's a strong sign of a good coach, to let an assistant participate. It shows his confidence in the coach's ability not to have to dominate everything.

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.

What I would say is every assistant coach in the NBA wants to be head coach.

As a young guy, you talk to the assistant coach.

I didn't want to end my coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

I coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.