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If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

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

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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

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

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You better have great practices.

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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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Can't win without talent, you know.

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

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

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

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

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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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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

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Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

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Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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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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