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Quotes by Coach
"A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better."
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"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
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"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."
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"When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay."
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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it."
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
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"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
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"At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends."
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"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve."
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"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."
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"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."
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"When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that."
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"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one."
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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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"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
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"I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively."
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"So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way."
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"Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing."
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"I think the National League has better biorhythms in July."
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"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
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