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Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

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Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

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We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

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You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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