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Quotes by Coach
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
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"Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization."
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"If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win."
40
"My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles."
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"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
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"Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now."
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"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."
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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it."
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"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
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"But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing."
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"Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball."
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"I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline."
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"I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them."
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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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"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."
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"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."
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"To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach."
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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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"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."
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"There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life."
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"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."
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"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."
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"Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness."
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