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Quotes by Coach
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."
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"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,
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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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"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
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"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."
48
"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."
48
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
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"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
48
"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."
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"Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut."
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"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."
47
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway."
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"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
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"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."
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"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good."
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"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
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"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
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"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third."
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
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"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."
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"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
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"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."
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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
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"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."
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"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
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