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Eddie Sutton: 'I would have crawled all the way to Lexington' and other memorable quotes

Eddie Sutton, who won 806 games en route to a hall-of-fame career, died Saturday in Tulsa at age 84.

There were stops at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State and ever-so-briefly, San Francisco.

There were also a collection of great quotes along the way. Here are some of them:

Quotes by Sutton

On his introduction as head coach at Kentucky on April 2, 1985: “It’s the only job I’d leave the University of Arkansas for. When (Kentucky President Otis Singletary) called me, believe me, I would have crawled all the way to Lexington.