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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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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

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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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Can't win without talent, you know.

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Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

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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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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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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 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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

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God didn't miss any of us.

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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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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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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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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

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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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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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