When I was coaching at Kentucky - I was a grad assistant and I just got through playing and we won the NCAA Championship in 1978, so I stayed after I got through playing - we had Japan's national team coach Mototaka Kohama come to Lexington to spend the year and study basketball. He and I became great friends, so we hung out together.
I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.
The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.
After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
I absolutely loved working with the players at Navy. There are no better young men to coach than those you find at a service academy. I really enjoyed going to work every day because I loved being around those midshipmen.
I've spent my entire life around coaches.
Playing one year under Coach K feels like you've played for three years. I learned so much from him; gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from him.
I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.
I'm not surprised to be the coach on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.
People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.
The European leagues have been there a long time, the coaches have been there, the clubs have been there, there's history to the teams. There's already that football support culture.
When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.
I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.
I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.
I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.
The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.
I don't think I've ever had a better experience in the sport than coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter.' I got to do it twice, but I got to really build relationships there that will last forever.
Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.
