Kurt Warner Quotes

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.

I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

There's always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

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

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

Coach Kiffin calls plays based on matchups and what he sees.

In L.A., I think Sean McVay is one of the best play callers there is in the NFL, and I don't see him giving that up anytime soon.

Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

I learned a lot of different offenses in this league.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

Offense is about rhythm and timing, and you're not going to always have that every game.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.

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.

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.