Bruce Arians Quotes

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

It wasn't until I started my coaching badges that I found that I enjoyed it.

In terms of the coaching aspect and things like that, I've always been someone that prides themselves in helping young talent.

I'm a fan of coaching.

I want to be a better head coach than my father.

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.

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

I've been lucky to have worked for many great coaches. They've all been so good that maybe, at the end of my career, I'll give it a go myself.

I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly - find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.

Every coach has a different style and approach.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.