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

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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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When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
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Make your life exciting.
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Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
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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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You measure a player from the head up.
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Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
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My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house.
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You better have great practices.
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If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.
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Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
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I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.
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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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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 want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.
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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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Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.
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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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The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
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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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Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.
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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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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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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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