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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."
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"I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'"
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"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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"Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising."
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"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
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"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."
Money

"Men must know their limitations."
Men

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."
Power

"In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey."
Journey

"If you think it's going to rain, it will."
Rain

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."
Change

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
Extreme

"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."
Movies

"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
Pessimism

"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject."
Genius
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