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"I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."
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"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."
Retirement
"I've enjoyed my retirement."
Retirement
"I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do."
Nothing
"I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time."
Time
"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
Victory
"I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."
Respect
"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."
Experience
"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
Birds
"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
Optimism
"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
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"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."
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Personal Development
"I didn't have the vaguest idea of what to do " I couldn't keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn't work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don't have anything to say."
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Personal Development
"Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know."
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Personal Development
"What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!"
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Personal Development
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
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Personal Development
"I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone."
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Personal Development
"It is wise to use titles for people in positions of power, higher education, seniority, or maturity, unless otherwise instructed. This may sound old-fashioned, but practicing respectful traditions will earn you points and inevitably make you seem more cultured and sophisticated. This is especially true with older generations."
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Personal Development
"The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts."
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Personal Development
"Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally."
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Personal Development
"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
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Personal Development
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