Kelvin Sampson Quotes

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Kelvin Sampson

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 5, 1955

I always coached mostly the have-not schools.

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You coach at a have-not school, and you have to have a competitiveness and a resolve and resiliency about you that's different, or you'll never make it. You've got to find a way to do more with less.

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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 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'm saying when young men get to the NCAA Tournament, let's find a way to get their parents and their brothers and sisters a plane ticket and a hotel room. I don't think that's asking too much.

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I loved the NBA. I really did.

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I used to think 63 was old.

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I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

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There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.

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One of the ways to use your depth is to play with speed.

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When I was at Oklahoma, I always felt like I had to control the game because we didn't have great scorers. So, I had to figure a way to win.

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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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It was never my intent to come back to college.

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The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance.

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Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

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Sometimes players just take a little while to develop.

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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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You remember all your teachers.

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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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If you are an Oklahoma football fan, you have one of the best football programs in the nation.

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