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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 call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, “Son.”)
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.
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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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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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The world is run by C students
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Winning is only important in war and surgery.
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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 come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
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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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I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
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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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The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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You better have great practices.
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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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