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Quotes by Coach
"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."
"Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them."
"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together."
"Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know."
"Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure."
"It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game."
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
"A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December."
"A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me."
"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."
"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."
"The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game."
"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."
"I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background."
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
"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."
"How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it."
"And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!"
"Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness."
"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow."
"It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it."
"Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all."
"I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful."
"I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here."
"Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game."
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"I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career."
"But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance."
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"All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it."
"We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting."
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