Red Auerbach Quotes
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
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Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.
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After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
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I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people's strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they're uncomfortable.
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Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.
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There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
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They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
