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Quotes by Coach
"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."
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"I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good."
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"The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game."
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"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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"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
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"If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that."
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"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."
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"If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment."
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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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"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
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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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"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
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"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."
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"The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back."
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"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management."
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"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
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"One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much."
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"The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner."
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"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
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"But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance."
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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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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
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"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
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"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
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"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
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"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
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"Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!"
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"I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that."
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"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence."
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