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• "Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result of the growth that I have made through my Church callings. I had the opportunity to serve as a bishop in a campus ward while I was still an assistant coach. When I was appointed head football coach in 1972, I decided to approach my role as a coach much the same as I did as a bishop, delegating responsibility to my assistants, putting responsibility on the players for self-improvement in all aspects of their lives, and using personal interviews with players to try to give positive reinforcement and encouragement so that they might do their very best and reach their full potential, both on and off the field."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems—even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "[T]he finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end."
  By: Laurence Malone
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• "I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice."
  By: Knute Kenneth Rockne
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• "As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel."
  By: Kevin Keegan, 1995
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• "I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers."
  By: Katharine Whitehorn
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• "I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees."
  By: Jonathan Davies, 1995
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• "Squash is boxing with racquets."
  By: Jonah Barrington
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• "Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow."
  By: John Mariucci
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• "Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding."
  By: John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980
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• "We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it."
  By: John F. Kennedy, 1961
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• "If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser."
  By: John Donne, 1623
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