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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 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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Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

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

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

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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God didn't miss any of us.

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

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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

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