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Quotes by Coach
"Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants."
5
"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."
5
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
5
"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."
5
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
5
"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."
5
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
5
"So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion."
5
"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
5
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
5
"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."
5
"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."
4
"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow."
4
"We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are."
4
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
4
"It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more."
4
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
4
"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
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4
"I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes."
4
"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
4
"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway."
4
"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course."
4
"The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back."
4
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