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Geno Auriemma Biography

Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954) is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. He has led UConn to eleven NCAA Division I national championships, the most in women's college basketball history, and has won eight national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards. Auriemma was the head coach of the United States women's national basketball team from 2009 through 2016, during which time his teams won the 2010 and 2014 World Championships, and gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, going undefeated in all four tournaments.

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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.

Day, Done, Goal, Way

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

Cycles, Everything, Indefinitely, Lasts

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.

Athlete, Basketball, College, Good, Winning

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

Basketball, Big, Line, Risk, Win, Winning

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

Absence, Great Things, Hard, Pressure

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

Basketball, Games, Player, Players, Realize, Winning

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.

Deceit, Heard, Lying, Said, Years

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

Basketball, Coaches, Nba, People, Turn

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.

Basketball, Career, Coach, Player, Say, Team

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.

Coaches, Coaching, College, Confide, Easy, Player