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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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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

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I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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Live in the moment that you are in.

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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

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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 people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

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

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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.

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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

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You measure a player from the head up.

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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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