By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.
This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.
I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.
If one day God gives me the opportunity to coach Cameroon, it would be a great pleasure.
I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.
I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.
I've known Adrian Griffin for quite awhile now and always had him as my 'when I get a job, I want to hire him if he isn't already a head coach and I can get him' list.
It wasn't until Joe Maddon called me in 2006 when I thought about pursuing a coaching career.
I've got massive respect for Arsene Wenger for what he's done for the English game, and it would have been good to work under him, but that didn't happen.
My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.
I think the only thing to consider is do you want to try to coach in the NBA and for me it never was an issue. I never really had that desire.
When I'm older and my children have grown up, I would like to coach in the NBA.
I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.
When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities 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.
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
Of course you want to coach in the Bundesliga when you move into coaching.
I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.
All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.
