Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Growing up my favorite coach was Billy Martin.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

I've spent my entire life around coaches.

I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.

I coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.

Since I was 15 or 16 years old, my grandfather was my high school football coach and my life's been ball. Dinners we're talking about ball and college we're talking about ball.

Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.