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

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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 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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Can't win without talent, you know.

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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'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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You measure a player from the head up.

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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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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

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

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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

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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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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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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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

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

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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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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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