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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

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

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

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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

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

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The world is run by C students

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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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You better have great practices.

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

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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 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 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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