When I was coaching at Kentucky - I was a grad assistant and I just got through playing and we won the NCAA Championship in 1978, so I stayed after I got through playing - we had Japan's national team coach Mototaka Kohama come to Lexington to spend the year and study basketball. He and I became great friends, so we hung out together.
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.
By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.
The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.
After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
I've spent my entire life around coaches.
I absolutely loved working with the players at Navy. There are no better young men to coach than those you find at a service academy. I really enjoyed going to work every day because I loved being around those midshipmen.
Playing one year under Coach K feels like you've played for three years. I learned so much from him; gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from him.
I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.
I'm not surprised to be the coach on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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.
I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.
People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.
The European leagues have been there a long time, the coaches have been there, the clubs have been there, there's history to the teams. There's already that football support culture.
When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.
I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.
I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.
I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.
The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.
I don't think I've ever had a better experience in the sport than coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter.' I got to do it twice, but I got to really build relationships there that will last forever.
Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.
