Geno Auriemma Quotes

#1. Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

Geno Auriemma

#2. So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games

Geno Auriemma

#3. Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

John Mayer

#4. The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

Joyce Meyer

#5. With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

Geno Auriemma

#6. I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

Lightnin' Hopkins

#7. The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

Geno Auriemma

#8. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

Ayn Rand

#9. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.

Tim Fargo

#10. Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.

Geno Auriemma

#12. In this present body he hadn't been loved, and he found almost nothing to love about himself.

Ann Brashares

#13. Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.

Geno Auriemma

#15. I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

Geno Auriemma