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

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

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There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

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

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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

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Can't win without talent, you know.

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You better have great practices.

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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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You measure a player from the head up.

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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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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

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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 don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

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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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