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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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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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God didn't miss any of us.

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I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

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

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

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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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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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

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

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

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

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