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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'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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Can't win without talent, you know.

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

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Live in the moment that you are in.

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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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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 don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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

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

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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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

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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.

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

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