COACHES HOT SEAT BLOG

Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Sunday, July 1, 2012 – Louis Armstrong

“What we play is life.”

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“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”

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“I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it’s always come first, but the music ain’t worth nothing if you can’t lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, ’cause what you’re there for is to please the people.”

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“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn…”

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“We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.”

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“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”

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“There is no such thing as ‘on the way out’ as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you’re in the business because you’re breathing”

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“All music is folk music, I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song”

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Saturday, June 30, 2012 – Jimmy Buffett

“And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.”

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“And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.”

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“Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.”

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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”

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“I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.”

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“I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.”

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“If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.”

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“If life gives you limes, make margaritas.”

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Coaches Hot Seat Prediction and Analysis of 2012 Season: Nebraska Cornhuskers and Bo Pelini

Nebraska Cornhuskers

Head Coach:  Bo Pelini

Years at Nebraska:  3

Hot Seat Position: #37

Overall Coaching Record:  39 – 16  (.709)

Overall Won/Loss Record at Nebraska:  39 – 16  (.709)

Overall Conference Record at Nebraska:  22 – 10  (.688)

2011 Nebraska Record: Overall:  9 – 4 – Big Ten:  5 – 3

2012 Nebraska Schedule & Coaches Hot Seat Predictions

Sept 1 – Southern Miss – W
Sept 8 – at UCLA – W
Sept 15 – Arkansas State – W
Sept 22 – Idaho State – W
Sept 29 – Wisconsin – W
Oct 6 – at Ohio State – W

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Friday, June 29, 2012 – William Faulkner

“A gentleman can live through anything.”

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“A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”

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“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

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“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.”

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“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

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“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”

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“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.”

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“Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.”

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“I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”

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Coaches Hot Seat Prediction and Analysis of 2012 Season:  Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Brian Kelly

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Head Coach: Brian Kelly

Years at Notre Dame:  2

Hot Seat Position:  #84

Overall Coaching Record:  187 – 66 – 2  (.733)

Overall Won/Loss Record at Notre Dame:  16 – 10  (.615)

Overall Conference Record at Notre Dame:  N/A

2011 Notre Dame Record:  8 – 5

2012 Notre Dame Schedule & Coaches Hot Seat Predictions

Sept 1 – Notre Dame (Ireland) – W
Sept 8 – Purdue – W
Sept 15 – at Michigan State – L
Sept 22 – Michigan – L
Oct 6 – Miami (FL) – W
Oct 13 – Stanford – L

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