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Quotes by Coach
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
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"I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players."
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"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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"We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are."
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"Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them."
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"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else."
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"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."
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"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."
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"The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner."
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"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
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"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game."
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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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"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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"One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach."
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"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel."
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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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"Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."
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"Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters."
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"Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know."
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
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"When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric."
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"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."
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"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
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"We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
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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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"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."
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"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
Want,
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"He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different."
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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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"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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