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"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
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"Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them."
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"The ordinary build houses when they have bricks, the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles."
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"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
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"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
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"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"
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"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
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Personal Development
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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"Be a dreamer. Be a doer. Be a perseverer. Be a winner."
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"It is never late, pursuit your ambitions."
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"The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become."
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"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
Responsibility
"First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity."
Time
"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."
Opportunity
"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
Positive
"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
Leadership
"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it."
Love
"I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it."
Family
"My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles."
Time
"The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits."
Love
"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."
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