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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Friday, June 22, 2012 – Ted Turner

“All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.”

And

“I didn’t get here for my acting… but I love show business.”

And

“I see what keeps people young: work!”

And

“I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.”

And

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”

And

“There’s nothing wrong with being fired.”

And

“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

And

“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”

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Last week in San Francisco a good friend of ours that has worked in Washington DC on Capitol Hill for 20 plus years and who a few of us here at Coaches Hot Seat worked with when all of us started together on Capitol Hill told us over dinner that things have “never been worse” in Washington DC and that OUR “Elected Leaders” are borderline mentally ill and are just unable to deal with the biggest problems now facing the American Republic because to do so would put their re-election chances at great risk.

With that in mind it was rather enjoyable to take a break from work on Wednesday afternoon and see that the 11 conference commissioners and the Notre Dame AD were able to bridge a lot of differences over the past 6 months to come up with a consensus model for a 4-Team Postseason Playoff for Major College Football.

What these 11 conference commissioner and the Notre Dame AD have proved is that….

Americans can still get difficult things done

….and last night after dinner the phone rang at one of our houses and it was our good friend from Washington DC on the line who sounded typically and exhausted and what do you think he said?

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