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"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."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."
"The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless."
"Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means."
"Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword."
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"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
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"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."
"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now."
"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
"The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team."
"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."
"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."
"Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters."
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