You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
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We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
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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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That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
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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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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
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Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
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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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” 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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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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On how to make the game more exciting.
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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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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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If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.
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