Coaching Failure Quotes

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.

When a coach loses a team... that's when a coach is kind of done.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

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.

I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'

I think the day you underestimate the importance of the job at Celtic Football Club, that's the day when you fail. I've seen a few coaches doing that.

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

I am not saying Gary Neville is a nobody. He has accomplished a lot in his life, he is a legend. But as a coach? Let him stay on the TV.