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"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."
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"Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal, it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!"
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"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."
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"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."
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"Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!"
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"Fail big. Fail better.Try again. Without looking for a shelter."
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"Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life."
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"Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path."
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"If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you."
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"Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success."
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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."
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"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."
Failure

"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."
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"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
Beauty

"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."
Basketball

"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
Positive

"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."
Being

"Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."
Ego

"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."
Basketball

"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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"The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team."
Life
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