The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You … - Geno Auriemma

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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.

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

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

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

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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

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If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.

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