Auriemma Quotes & Sayings

If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport ... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today. — Charlie Sifford

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things. — Geno Auriemma

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

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood. — Heath Ledger

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? — Charlotte Bronte

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. — Anthony Doerr

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created. — Steve Harvey

You might be a redneck if the Home Shopping Channel operator recognizes your voice. — Jeff Foxworthy

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

I don't need to come closer to kill you, but I will come closer to watch you bleed. (Darius) — Madison Thorne Grey