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Quotes by Coach
"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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"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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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."
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"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else."
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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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"It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing."
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"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."
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"But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing."
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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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"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come."
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"I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you."
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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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"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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"This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons."
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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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"A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times."
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"The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
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"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
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"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job."
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"There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves."
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"It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins."
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"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
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