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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."
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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."

"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."

"I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody."

"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."
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