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

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

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

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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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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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Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

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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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You better have great practices.

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

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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

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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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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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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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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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