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Quotes by Coach
"We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting."
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"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency."
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"Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another."
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"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
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"I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills."
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"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
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"We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!"
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"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."
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"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
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"I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be."
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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
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"If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier."
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"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
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"Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure."
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"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently."
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"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
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