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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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You measure a player from the head up.

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I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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The world is run by C students

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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

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You better have great practices.

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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

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God didn't miss any of us.

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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

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Can't win without talent, you know.

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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

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Live in the moment that you are in.

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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

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