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Quotes by Coach
"Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field."
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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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"Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters."
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"Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices."
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"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."
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"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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"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."
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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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"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
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"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."
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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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"A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me."
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"Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens."
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"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off."
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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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"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here."
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"What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now."
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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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"Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants."
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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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"People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time."
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"When we get to the future, I'll determine the future."
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"Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like 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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"Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything."
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