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

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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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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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You measure a player from the head up.

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

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I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

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Can't win without talent, you know.

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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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

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

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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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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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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

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

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

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