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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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Live in the moment that you are in.

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

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

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Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

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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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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

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

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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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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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