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You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches. -- Tony DiCicco
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.' -- Don Meyer
Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award. -- Don Meyer
I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening. -- Tony DiCicco
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. -- Lou Holtz
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. -- Adam Oates
If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants. -- John Wooden
I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun. -- Dean Smith
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game. -- Don Shula
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong. -- Patrick Ewing
While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech. -- Stephan James
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years. -- Darrell Royal
Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with. -- Rick Pitino
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' -- Chuck Pagano
Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades. -- Jimmy Johnson
Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter. -- Christine Pelosi
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. -- Steve Spurrier
We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves. -- Kevin Garnett
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach. -- John Madden
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. -- Lou Holtz
I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament. -- Tim Buckley

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