Bo Schembechler Sayings

#1. I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.

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#2. There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?'

Nolan North

#3. No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.

Amartya Sen

#4. If you want to be a truly great leader, you'll develop other great leaders below you.

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#5. I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.

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#6. The upset is in the mind of the favorite.

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#7. I can see my imaginary friend. I can hear him. I can talk to him. He is using a towel.

Katherine Applegate

#8. Early is on time and on time is late.

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#9. The team, the team, the team.

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#10. A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

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#11. Those who stay will be champions

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#12. I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.

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#13. If you do not like people, you will not take the time to get to know them, and if you don't get to know them, you will have no idea what scares them, what inspires them, what motivates them.

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#14. No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team?

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#15. We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other

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#16. No coach is more important than the Team

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#17. Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

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#18. Nothing good ever happens after midnight.

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#19. The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

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#20. If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

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#21. I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.

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#22. Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

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#23. People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Paul Mooney

#24. You can NOT be a leader unless you like people! You've got to spend time with them, so you know them. You've got to be interested in who they are, what they do away from the job, and how they think.

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#25. Every day we get better, or we get worse.

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#26. The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

Clayton Christensen

#27. When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing

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#28. If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

Meg Cabot

#29. I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.

Orhan Pamuk

#30. Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

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#31. By your own soul, learn to live.
If some men force you, take no heed.
If some men hate you, have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dreams
Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.

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#32. If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.

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