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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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God didn't miss any of us.

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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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 don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

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

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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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Can't win without talent, you know.

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