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"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
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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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"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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"I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China."
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"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving."
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"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."
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"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."
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"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."
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"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
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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."
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"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 set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
Hope
"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
Coach
"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
"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
"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."
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"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
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