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"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."
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"I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline."
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"But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach."
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"I started out wanting to coach football."
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"You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying."
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"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
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"I think that teaching coaches are the norm now."
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"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."
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"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
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"When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player."
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"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."
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"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
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"You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore."
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"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
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"I think that teaching coaches are the norm now."
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"I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson."
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"Basketball is basketball."
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"But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them."
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"If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot."
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