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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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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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Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

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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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You better have great practices.

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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

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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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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

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

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