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Merlin Olsen

"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."

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"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."

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Asa Don Brown

"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."

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Asa Don Brown

"I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving."

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Asa Don Brown

"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."

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Asa Don Brown

"Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field."

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Asa Don Brown

"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."

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Asa Don Brown

"Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk."

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Asa Don Brown

"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."

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Asa Don Brown

"I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach."

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Asa Don Brown

"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."

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Merlin Olsen
"I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important."

Thought

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Merlin Olsen
"Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field."

Pressure

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Merlin Olsen
"The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn."

Basketball

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Merlin Olsen
"Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time."

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Merlin Olsen
"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."

Coach

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Merlin Olsen
"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds."

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Merlin Olsen
"After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind."

Creativity

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Merlin Olsen
"I can ski out of my back door."

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Merlin Olsen
"You are the land. The land is you."

Land

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Merlin Olsen
"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."

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