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Quotes by Coach
"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."
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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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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
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"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."
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"You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it."
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"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now."
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"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years."
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"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."
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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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"As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years."
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"I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that."
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"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
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"I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach."
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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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"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized."
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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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"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams."
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"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."
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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 don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
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"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
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"I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills."
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