This collection holds 151 head coach quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Jeffrey Lurie, Stan Van Gundy and Rex Ryan.

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The head coach is the chemist.

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.

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

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

Having a head coach pushing you is definitely a plus.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

The head coach makes the decision about what's best for the team.

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

Whether I'm 'head coach' or 'manager,' it doesn't bother me at all.

I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

What I would say is every assistant coach in the NBA wants to be head coach.

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

My head coach in Minnesota, Dennis Green, loved wideouts with plenty of size.

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

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.

There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I love Coach Zimmer. He's a tough head coach who stands behind his players 100 percent.

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

I didn't do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.

You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of all.

I will miss the ladies and the passion of the Sun fans. I was proud to serve as their head coach.

My dream was to be an assistant college coach, maybe a head coach, maybe at a Division III school.

I have been manager, director, now I am head coach, and it's the same role. Absolutely the same role.

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a job.

I thought I was doing very well at Florida. Then I get suspended. Then my head coach tells me to transfer.

It's always good when the offensive head coach and the quarterback think like-minded. That's a good thing.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

With a head coach, you make a mistake and learn. With a king, you make a mistake and get your head bitten off.

That's part of my prerogative as a head coach is that I can change my mind because if I'm wrong, I'll admit it.

As a head coach, you're on two lists. You're the guy that might get fired, or you're the guy who might go somewhere.

Everybody sees me now, and I'm the head coach at Clemson and this and that, but my life hasn't always been this way.

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.

I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.

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