Jerry Tarkanian quotes
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“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”
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“The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.”
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“A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war.”
-- Jerry TarkanianSource : "Hall of Fame UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian dies aged 84", www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2015.
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“Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.”
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“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.”
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“Coaching has been my entire life.”
-- Jerry TarkanianSource : "Hall of Fame UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian dies aged 84", www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2015.
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“During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.”
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“I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.”
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“I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.”
-- Jerry Tarkanian
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Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
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