679 Quotes by Jim Calhoun

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    It's fine when we're running. It's not quite as fine in the half-court set. Yet I've seen us in the half-court set be brilliant.

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    If he's not one of the best two or three kids in the country, then I guess I've lost my judgment about how good a guy can be.

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    Coming off a Villanova game where he played 13 minutes and didn't score a point, I started him the next game to tell him we've got to get him back. For us to win, we've got to get him back. ... Thank God we got them back.

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    What really hurt us a lot of times is another team playing well and us not playing so well.

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    It's funny, New England is the birthplace of basketball, but we are somewhat underrepresented in the Hall of Fame, ... I would like to see Jimmy Walker in there. Holy Cross. They were the epitome. Later on, with Dave Gavitt and the Providence teams.

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    He's going to be something very, very special. Right now, he is a terrific college basketball player, not the great, great dominating college basketball player that he would be if he stayed in college. I don't think the circumstances are going to allow it to come, unfortunately. I just think that's the way it is.

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    When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

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