Coaching Change Quotes

Al Davis fires everybody.

You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

Obviously it's hard to lose a coach; that's not fun for anybody because you care about him and you have a relationship with him. But as players, we just have to keep moving on.

It's hard to speculate, but it was tough when coach Paul Westphal drafted me and wanted me there and then got fired two weeks into my rookie year.

I believe that everything starts from scratch when changing a coach.

I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

What happens in college is every year, or every two years, sometimes every three, you get a new flock of graduate assistants that come in even though the head coach remains the same.

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

When guys are trying to better themselves or their career, they go to a new team or a new coach. It happens every day in this sport. What's the big deal?

When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

I was at Marseille and had four coaches in four seasons. Changing coaches is nothing new.

Look how successful Eddie Jones was, then all of a sudden a training camp is wrong and it's his fault. The same with Stuart Lancaster.

I would be shocked if Tom Izzo left Michigan State.

I've experienced it a few times at club level, when a manager goes. It doesn't become any easier, but it's part and parcel.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

I was the coach in Valencia, and this was when Pochettino was finishing his playing career. And we met in Valencia watching the Chile training sessions. And a few months later, he took over as coach of Espanyol.

The best West Coast coaching job I've seen was when Mike Shanahan left the 49ers, became the head coach in Denver and made it available to John Elway.

I don't like to see any coach get sacked - not Lopetegui, not the Huesca coach, not the Granada coach, and, of course, not the Barca coach.