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"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on."
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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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"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
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"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."
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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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"I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills."
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"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."
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"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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"It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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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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"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
Difference
"To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
Performance
"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
Thought
"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
Reading
"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."
Power
"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."
Dream
"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater."
Friendship
"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."
Man
"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."
Dream
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
Experience
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