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Quotes by Coach
"We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains."
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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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"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel."
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
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"When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric."
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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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"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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"All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it."
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"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result."
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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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"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."
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"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."
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"A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December."
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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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"I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past."
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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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"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."
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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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"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management."
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"I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be."
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"Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all."
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"I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring."
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"An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
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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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"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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"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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"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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