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“It's hard to do wrong when the chief of police lives on the right side of you and the principal on the left side.”
“I hope I get remembered as a working man, not anybody that just had everything.”
“I've never run from anything in my life, nothing.”
“The most important part of my job is, as they say, taking a boy and making him a man. But my other most rewarding part is taking a guy that maybe isn't in an element that is going to make him successful to life to help bring him into it.”
“You've got to deal with sometimes what life throws at you, and life has thrown some things at me and life has thrown some incredible things at me.”
“We all think there's greener things on the other side. We all take for granted what we have. I don't care who we are.”
“I think kids are making a lot of bad decisions because we're teaching them that the minute something goes tough, to get the hell out of dodge.”
“My dad and uncles probably taught me more than any institutions.”
“We can all be leaders.”
“The upsets are bigger deals when you're thought of as a bigger deal.”
“We're past the days of Vince Lombardi, where you say jump and I ask: 'How high?' But you still have to find a way to get your guys to jump, get them to trust you.”
“Sometimes if you have two or three at the top it makes the league look good, of course. But the real value of a league is what are teams 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.”
“I just think some things are bigger than basketball.”
“What I want to do is put Michigan State University in rare air.”
“I guess I was a decent basketball player - pass first, pass second, shoot third... pretty good defensively.”
“Coaches tell you things for a reason. If they tell you to keep your head up, there's a reason. If they tell you to get the ball ready to shoot, there's a reason.”
“Most of the time people play zone because they've got lazy guys.”
“I'm into all the peaceful protests.”
“There is nothing, nothing, nothing like experience - nothing. You can't coach it, you can't teach it, you can't do it - there is nothing like experience.”
“I think it's a shame that all we talk about is the one-and-done players.”