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Quotes by Coach
"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
75
"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good."
74
"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."
73
"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
73
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."
73
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
72
"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be."
Will,
72
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
71
"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
71
"Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut."
70
"The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
69
"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come."
68
"Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit."
68
"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
67
"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."
67
"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."
67
"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."
66
"Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings."
66
"I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players."
66
"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."
66
"Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight."
66
"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."
65
"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."
65
"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me."
65
"I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things."
64
"Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game."
63
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
63
"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
63
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