Latest LaVell Edwards Quotes from Interviews

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• One of our goals was to serve a mission, which we are now doing. After that, we want to keep our family together eternally, be of service in whatever way possible, and endure to the end!

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  Goal, Together, Want

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• I can't think of anything I would do differently in my life. It would be nice to undo some of my mistakes I made over the years, but then I wouldn't have grown professionally or personally.

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  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

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• I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.

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  Team, Impact, Effort

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• I hope I've been a good example to the youth of the church.

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  Church, Example, Youth

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• Not playing on Sunday has caused problems for other organizations or teams who wanted us to do so, but we never had to think twice about such a decision.

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  Team, Sunday, Thinking

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• Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.

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  Church, Members, Personal And Professional Life

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• If we have to go through a mental exercise, yes or no, every time we are faced with a tough decision, we will continue to have trouble with living what we supposedly believe.

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  Believe, Exercise, Decision

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• The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.

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  Commitment, Made, Difficulty

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• Once I made the commitment to fully live my religion, it was never a problem.

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  Commitment, Problem, Made

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• The Wyoming game in 1974, my third year as head coach. My first year, we were 7-4; the second year, we went 5-6; the third year started out 0-3-1. Some of the players got together and had a team meeting to get a few things straightened out. Starting with the Wyoming game, we won 6 straight games and won our first conference championship, the second in BYU's history. We went to the Fiesta Bowl, the first of many bowl games for the Cougars.

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  Team, Player, Years

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• Along with church monies and the United Way, most of the others that I give the most to are organizations for which I have some personal connection in that they have affected family members; i.e., kidney, cancer, heart, and organ donation. My wife and I have also contributed to and been heavily involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County.

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  Girl, Cancer, Heart

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• I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

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  Giving, Trying, Personal Time

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• I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.

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  Would Be, Benefits, Favors

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• In the early years, I was able to accommodate most of the requests and favors that came my way, but as the requests multiplied, I had to make tough choices because the numbers were more than I could handle.

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  Years, Numbers, Choices

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• Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

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  Philosophy, Teaching, Player

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• Even though I did not go into college teaching, I believe the education I did receive helped me to become a better coach.

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  Believe, Teaching, College

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• I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU while coaching. I pursued these degrees to prepare myself if coaching didn't work out.

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  School, Utah, Byu

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• Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

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  Summer, School, Night

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• I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.

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  Team, Book, Player

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• Professionally - I had the opportunity to play sports throughout my youth, in high school and college. Early on, I decided I wanted to be a coach so I tried to learn everything I could about all positions on the team.

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  Sports, Team, School

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• One day I was complaining to Bill Coltrin about what I thought was an unfair article about our team. I was going to call the writer and complain to him. Bill told me, "If you plan to stay in this business (coaching), you need to realize a couple of things about the press. One, whatever is written, it will probably be forgotten in two or three days by the public; and two, if you complain or make an enemy of the writer, just remember you may have your 'day in the sun,' but he/she is going to press 365 days a year." I have never forgotten that.

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  Couple, Team, Remember You

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• Publicity can become invasive at times.

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  Publicity

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• The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again.

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  Goal, Receiving, Exaltation

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• My testimony helps me to establish priorities in my life.

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  Priorities, Helping, Help Me

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• My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

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  Jesus, Shelter, Belief

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