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Quotes by Coach
"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner."
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"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."
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"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."
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"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
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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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"Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both."
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"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."
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"The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
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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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"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
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"It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game."
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"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."
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"Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm."
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
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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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"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."
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"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
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"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."
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"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together."
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"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."
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"When we get to the future, I'll determine the future."
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"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off."
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"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."
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"A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better."
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"I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like."
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