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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 know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.
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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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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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I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’
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You better have great practices.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.
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Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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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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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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Can’t win without talent, you know.
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” Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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Make your life exciting.
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God didn’t miss any of us.
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