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"I feel like there should be more black head 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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"There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him."
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"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
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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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"Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed."
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"Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best."
Money
"Professional sports is a business."
Business
"Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good."
People
"I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing."
Dance
"I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith."
Faith
"If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere."
Business
"Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job."
Success
"Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed."
Sports
"We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?"
Freedom
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