Obviously it's always incredibly difficult to try to identify 12 players from a group of so many great players. The committee had a really difficult job this year, because it's the first time in a long time that a lot more than 12 players could easily have been named to that team, but the 12 that were named are a great combination of Olympic gold-medal experience, multiple gold medal winners and great leaders.

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It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. Th... by Geno Auriemma

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. by Geno Auriemma

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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I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

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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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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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Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefi... by Geno Auriemma

Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefinitely.

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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.

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I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

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Shes a reminder of how fortunate we are to do what we do with our... by Geno Auriemma

Shes a reminder of how fortunate we are to do what we do with our God-given talents and opportunity.

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They're allowed to get away with just whatever, and they're always thinking about themselves, me, me, me, me, me. 'I didn't score, so why should I be happy?' 'I'm not getting enough minutes; why should I be happy?' That's the world we live in today, unfortunately. Kids check the scoreboard sometimes because they're going to get yelled at by their parents if they don't score enough points. Don't get me started.

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They haven't even figured out which foot to use as a pivot foot, and they're going to act like they're really good players.

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But the 12 that were named are a great combination of Olympic gold-medal experience, multiple gold medal winners and great leaders, there is also an influx of young players, which not only is going to be a great benefit to us this year, but I think it will set the stage going forward in two years for the world Championship and then in four years in Tokyo.

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I just know that in our sport, from 1995 to today, what we've done against our peers is as good if not better than anybody else has done in their sport against their peers, i don't care whether it's harder in that sport.

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