Top 80 Head Coach Quotes

Having already been a head coach and having been fired, you never want to be in a situation where you’re not prepared.

Having a head coach pushing you is definitely a plus.

If you want to work as a head coach and to lead a group of people there is no option to feel sorry for yourself or to complain about fate conspiring against you.

I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually lost out on many jobs, several jobs, and the complaint that I got was, ‘Well, he doesn’t fit the mold of a head coach. He doesn’t look the part. He’s not gonna jump up and down. He’s not going to scream.’

Each and every head coach has their own ideas and philosophy. This club had a clear picture of what I would bring, and I was aware of what Norwich City means. I decided to sign here because I’m fully convinced this club is where I want to be.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

No head coach does it by himself. I don’t care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he’s a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that’s what it takes.

We have won five Super Bowls as a family, but we want to win our sixth at some point. And I want to win it as a head coach, because that has never been done in our family.

People’s perception changes so fast. You win, and people say, ‘Well, he had all of those sanctions at USC, and that’s why he lost.’ You lose, and, ‘OK, he’s a bad head coach, and he’s just a good play-caller wherever he has been.’

I think you live and learn each year, whether you’re a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don’t.

I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn’t know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, ‘Oh my God, they gave me the job.’

People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It’s the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.

There are a whole load of different pressures that go with being the head coach, manager, whatever you want to call it. And everybody who’s done it, there are times when it becomes too much and you need some sort of break while you figure out how you de-stress, if you want.

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.

I am a head coach in the NFL today because of the opportunity the Coaching Fellowship provided me. The program is really the thing that jump-starts your career.

I don’t think about becoming a head coach. I really don’t. I’m not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

I’m a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn’t a good head coach – he had success before as the Raiders’ head coach – but because he’s been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.

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.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors… within about 24 months.

In Minnesota, we were caught between rebuilding or trying to continue to build around Kevin Garnett. I got caught right in the middle of that. KG was at an age where he was a good player, but he couldn’t carry a team anymore. I think my inexperience as far as being a head coach hurt me there.

I don’t think when I decided I didn’t want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

The head coach is the chemist.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it’s as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

There are things that I will think about, that I have been a part of because I was the head coach at UCLA, that I will always cherish. I grew up loving this program as a kid.

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.

I’m going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I’ll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.

When I was15 years old, I couldn’t look at the NFL and look on TV and say, ‘Boy, there’s a head coach, African American. That’s something I’d like to do.’

The captain tag is something that every head coach in this league takes seriously.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

I try to work out. As an assistant, it was a lot easier to work out. Then as a head coach, not as much as I should have.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

When you’re the head coach at Texas and you’re winning a lot of games, you don’t have to have new ideas, you don’t have to change and you really don’t doubt that much.

In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

I thought I was doing very well at Florida. Then I get suspended. Then my head coach tells me to transfer.

Being female and an advocate for equal opportunities, I want to see an equal representation in people applying for the head coach job for the women’s team.

I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it’s the same role. Absolutely the same role.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn’t my place to overstep the head coach.

Not head coach – Assistant would be very attractive, but I don’t think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.

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

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.

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.

When you’re a head coach there’s never a minute of the day when you’re not thinking about your team. But when things aren’t going well any problems are just accentuated.

It’s been a dream of mine to become a head coach in the NFL.

I said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they’d fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.

Everybody sees me now, and I’m the head coach at Clemson and this and that, but my life hasn’t always been this way.

I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I’m the assistant – you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I’m trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.