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"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."
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"The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life."

"If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy."

"I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."

"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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