Red Auerbach Quotes
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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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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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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You cut your life down for spite!
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I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.
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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
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I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.
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The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.
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Workers are basically supervisors of machines.
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When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.
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I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
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You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.
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I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody has the same opinion, not everybody likes the same players. The rankings are quite volatile: Today you're 'great,' tomorrow you're 'not,' but then you're 'great' again. It makes for great stories. Now, I always look at the long term and by doing that, obviously, I can stay calm through the storm.
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Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
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I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.
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You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
