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When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Team Win
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When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Blessing
Oklahoma
Me Better First
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I'm 50 years old and been a college coach for 23 years, but after 12 years, no matter where you are, there are ups and downs.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Basketball Team
Indiana
Head Coach
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As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.
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Championship
Indiana
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Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Little Things
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I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Nba
Closed
Ear
React
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The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Coaches
Nba
The One Thing
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When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn't have great scorers. So, I had to figure a way to win.
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Oklahoma
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Scott Skiles was a master tactician - they're all masters, but he is elite. He knew how to manipulate his team from an X's-and-O's standpoint.
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Manipulate
Masters
Standpoint
Elite
Master
Scott
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The tobacco markets I worked in were segregated. If you went to the bathroom, there was 'White,' there was 'Colored,' and there was 'Other.' I grew up in that.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Bathroom
Tobacco
Colored
Segregated
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When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Coaching
Dreams Goals People
Chase
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In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Walk Game Lose
Poorly
Trap
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The most overrated thing is that you're a good defensive team because of your coaching. No. You're a good defensive team because you care and because it's important to you.
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Overrated
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Karen is as good a coach's wife as I've ever been around, and she's better than most. She loves basketball and has a great understanding of my responsibilities, my possession.
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Possession
Responsibilities
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Guys like Andre Miller and Kevin Garnett - they're posting up hoping a second guy will run at them so they can pass. You're better just playing one-on-one in the post if you can.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
One On One
Andre
Hoping
Miller
Post
Posting
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From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
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Able
Common Sense
Might
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I'm saying when young men get to the NCAA Tournament, let's find a way to get their parents and their brothers and sisters a plane ticket and a hotel room. I don't think that's asking too much.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Brothers And Sisters
Hotel
Ncaa
Sisters
Hotel Room
Plane
Plane Ticket
Ticket
Tournament
Young Men
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One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was. We were just young kids growing up in normal blue-collar America.
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Blue Collar
Native
Reservations
First Things
Native Americans
Young Kids
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You coach at a have-not school, and you have to have a competitiveness and a resolve and resiliency about you that's different, or you'll never make it. You've got to find a way to do more with less.
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Competitiveness
Resolve
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Little old University of Houston jumping up, swinging with the big boys, and that's something to take pride in. I'm happy for our fans, I'm happy for our alumni, but more importantly, I'm happy for our players.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Alumni
Houston
Jumping
Importantly
Swinging
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In my formative years, when I was a little kid, I'd get out of elementary school, and because my mother worked as a nurse, I'd have to find a way to get a ride to the high school and watch my dad's team practice.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Elementary School
Little Kid
Elementary
Formative
Ride
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Racism was a big part of our community. I'm not going to revisit history, and I'm not going to call out those communities, but the communities we grew up around, we were treated like second- or third-class citizens.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Our Community
Racism
Big Part
Revisit
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The thing that surprised me is you hear a lot about NBA guys, do they really want to be coached? My experience is they really do want to be coached. They want a plan: 'How are we going to win the game?' And they'll follow that plan.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Nba
Coached
Experience Game Me
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My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Determination
Fiery
Had Enough
Fix
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My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn't get paid.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Tobacco
Life Education Time
Driver
Insurance
Life Insurance
Sold
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Tim is old school. He plays that way. That's why a lot of fans identify more with a Tim Heskett than with someone who is more dynamic. The more dynamic guy might be more pleasing to the eye, but he doesn't contribute any more to his team winning than Tim does.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Contribute
Dynamic
Identify
Pleasing
Tim
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Kevin McHale was a master communicator and knows how to coach stars, and that's a unique gift because you take an old-school guy that's used to coaching his way, he'd have a hard time coaching them cats now, but Kevin knows how, and he has the patience of Job.
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Cats
Master
Hard Time
His Way
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The one thing about Lumbee people is that there's so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all tend to get lumped under that umbrella. But the Lumbee are non-reservation. I grew up no different than anybody would in normal American communities.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Native
Umbrella
Lumped
Native Americans
Reservation
Stereotypes
The One Thing
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My dad was a high school coach for 30-plus years in North Carolina, and he was inducted into the North Carolina High School Coaches Hall of Fame. He's the best coach I've known, in every way, all the way around - relationships, motivation, going the extra mile, always putting his kids first and foremost.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Carolina
Coaches
Extra Mile
Motivation
North Carolina
Best Dad Always
Extra
Foremost
Mile
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With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes of the federal government. As such, we would employ our substantial skills and abilities to help correct problems faced by Indian country and make significant contributions.
Kelvin Sampson / Basketball Coach
Federal Government
Recognition
Significant
Contributions
Correct
Employ
Indians
Substantial
Tribe
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