No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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