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God didn't miss any of us.
The world is run by C students
You better have great practices.
Live in the moment that you are in.
Can't win without talent, you know.
You measure a player from the head up.
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
Winning is only important in war and surgery.
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
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.
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.