Head Coaches Quotes

• I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

  Les Miles

  Football, Strong, Team

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• I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

  Les Miles

  Lsu, Have A Great Day, Busy

  "Les Miles and life lessons". www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

  Mike Tice

  Football, Cutting, Teeth

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• Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

  Adam Oates

  Player, Littles, Assistants

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• The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

  Peyton Manning

  Order, Coaches

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• The head coach has to crack down a little more.

  Nate Oats

  Basketball, Cracks, Littles

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• The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

  Allan Sherman

  Want, Ulysses, Sissy

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• I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

  Rex Ryan

  Proud, Bills, Buffalo

  HC Rex Ryan Introductory Press Conference, Opening Remarks, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.

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• It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

  Will Muschamp

  Winning, Auburn, Championship

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• I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a player you want a team that really wants you; head coach, GM, owner, everybody that really wants you in their place and the players believe in you. I'm looking forward to making somebody fall in love with me.

  Robert Griffin III

  Falling In Love, Team, Believe

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• I hate to talk about myself like that, but if I had to straight up tell a head coach or an owner why they should take me, it's because I'm the best in everything I've done.

  Robert Griffin III

  Hate, Done, Straight Up

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• Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad.

  Fred Williams

  School, Worry, Very Sad

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• Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach

  Tommy Amaker

  Thinking, Assistants, Coaches

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• The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

  Pete Carroll

  Real, Views, Numbers

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I just realized how bad it is when you're not in charge and you're a head coach.

  Pete Carroll

  Just Realized, Coaches

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.

  Nate Oats

  Basketball, Curves, Coaches

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• I hold head coaches accountable.

  Roger Goodell

  Coaches

  "NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Explains The Saints' Severe Punishments" by Cork Gaines, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Black, Should

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• For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Careers, Defense, Firsts

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• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Jobs, Smart, America

  "A little advice for Obama at the half". fortune.com. November 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  Don Shula

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

  J. C. Watts

  Oklahoma, Tulsa, States

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• A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

  Ricky Williams

  Team, Personality, Coaches

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• Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached
  When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Basketball, Running, Boys

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