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

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

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

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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

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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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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

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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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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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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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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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Can't win without talent, you know.

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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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