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In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.
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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.
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I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.
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No one would have ever thought College GameDay would be coming to the University of Houston, I know that.
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You just have to be secure and understand what your beliefs are and how determined you are.
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I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.
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Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.
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I learned to be more flexible offensively, to not talk as much in practice.
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Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.
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My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.
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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.
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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.
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I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.
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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.
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I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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