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Quotes by Coach
"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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"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
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"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here."
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"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
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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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"It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it."
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"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."
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"To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach."
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"To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way."
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"The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team."
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"A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team."
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"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
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"When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric."
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"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
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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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"The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
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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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"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
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"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else."
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"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."
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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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"San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo."
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"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."
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