Top 32 George Karl Quotes

#1. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.

Jeff Ferry

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#2. I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

George Karl

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#3. We had a great preseason. The guys responded with what coach (George Karl) wanted early on in pace of the game, togetherness and defensive intensity. We've improved in those areas with a couple of setbacks, but we've improved each game.

Scott Brooks

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#4. Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

George Karl

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#5. I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?

George Karl

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#6. You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

George Karl

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#7. The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

George Karl

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#8. The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

George Karl

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#9. President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx!

Michael Savage

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#10. I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.

George Karl

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#11. Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

George Karl

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#12. There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

George Karl

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#13. When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

George Karl

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#14. Sheldon Adelson, for example, gave more than $53 million to Super PACs, but all eight of the candidates he supported lost.59 Karl Rove, a strategic mastermind who won fame advising George W. Bush, oversaw groups that spent $175 million and still lost twenty-one out of thirty elections.

Laurence H. Tribe

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#15. Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

George Karl

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#16. Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

George Karl

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#17. I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I'd rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.

George Karl

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#18. In the NBA, you win, and you think you're going to win tomorrow. But as soon as you lose, you don't think you're ever going to win again.

George Karl

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#19. I want to be the team that creates the action more than be the reactor.

George Karl

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#20. I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Ed Gillespie

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#21. The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

George Karl

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#22. Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noticin' that she'd left the river.

George R R Martin

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#23. The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships.

George Karl

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#24. A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes.

George Karl

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#25. One thing I'll tell you is the food in Sacramento is off the charts. You've got good Asian food, the farm system where everything is natural, which I believe in. I like organic.

George Karl

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#26. And then what did you do, Lord Oliver? Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

Jessica Day George

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#27. (Jason Leopold is) "a nut with Internet access (Page 439).

Karl Rove

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#28. Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.

George Lincoln Rockwell

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#29. I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.

George Karl

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#30. In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

George Karl

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#31. I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

Karl Rove

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#32. Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off ... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.

George Karl

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