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

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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

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

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

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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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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

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

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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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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

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

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

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

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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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Live in the moment that you are in.

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If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

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

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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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