When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.
I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.
As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.
Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.
There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.
I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.
There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.
Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.
I used to say, as an assistant, I would go in and close my door for three hours after practice and just watch film. Now it seems like I'm in a meeting and then another and then another for three hours that have nothing to do with basketball. It's just different.
The challenge of coaching a national side like England would be something different. The job is not about coaching every day.
A coach these days is more of a manager than a coach. At this level, you shouldn't really need a coach. You need someone to organise, to come up with gameplans and tactics, rather than someone who is going to do much actual coaching.
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.
I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.
