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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
Man
"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
Sports
"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."
Talk
"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."
People
"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"
Woman
"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."
Entertainment
"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
Coach
"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."
Abuse
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
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"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land."
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Personal Development
"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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Personal Development
"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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Personal Development
"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
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Personal Development
"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
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"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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Personal Development
"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in."
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Personal Development
"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun."
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Personal Development
"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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