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If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

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I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

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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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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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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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

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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

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

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

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

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