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God didn't miss any of us.

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

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You better have great practices.

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There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

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

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

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The world is run by C students

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

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

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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

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

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

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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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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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