Kelvin Sampson Quotes

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Kelvin Sampson

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 5, 1955

One of the things I enjoy most about what I do is I can give my father joy.

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I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.

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Coaching is competitively addictive. It just gets in your blood, especially if you win.

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My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.

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My main influence was my father. He was a great high school coach. I thought one day, if I got lucky, I could be a head high school coach.

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Tim is old school. He plays that way. That's why a lot of fans identify more with a Tim Heskett than with someone who is more dynamic. The more dynamic guy might be more pleasing to the eye, but he doesn't contribute any more to his team winning than Tim does.

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Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.

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Sometimes the harder you work, the more likely you are to maybe break a rule.

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Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

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I'm 50 years old and been a college coach for 23 years, but after 12 years, no matter where you are, there are ups and downs.

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I've had kind of a nondescript college career.

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Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.

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I don't think the fans pull for or against a coach.

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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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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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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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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 dad has always been my role model.

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I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.

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I had to take care of my family. That was my No. 1 goal.

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