Wally Buono
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"Pasquale "Wally" Buono" is the general manager, vice president of football operations and alternate governor of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, and one of the most successful head coaches in league history. He spent 22 years as head coach of the Calgary Stampeders and the BC Lions, which is tied for the most seasons coached all-time. On September 19, 2009, Buono became the CFL's all-time winningest coach when his Lions beat the Toronto Argonauts 23–17, giving him 232 regular-season victories, passing Don Matthews. He retired with a CFL record 254 regular-season wins as head coach.

Buono's post-season coaching record is 22–16, with five Grey Cup victories in nine appearances. He won the Grey Cup championship in 80th Grey Cup/1992, 86th Grey Cup/1998 and 89th Grey Cup/2001 as head coach of the Stampeders and in 94th Grey Cup/2006 and 99th Grey Cup/2011 as head coach of the Lions. He won the Annis Stukus Trophy as the CFL's Coach of the Year four times, in 1992, 1993, 2006, and 2011, second only to Don Matthews, who had five.

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If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.

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When we were 11-0 and came here some people thought I was sarcastic when I said I see no benefit in losing, ... I wasn't being sarcastic. One loss leads to two, which leads to three and four ... It's a cycle [that] is hard to break.

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We have to raise our level of intensity. I think they'll understand. We have to respond and rebound.

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We played hard but we didn't play smart. Chances are running out on us and those guys better understand that.

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He's not a baby.

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We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys were in a fog. We won, despite ourselves. That's the mark of good team. We're not a great team yet.

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Everything we do from this day forward is about doing better.

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They had the momentum at that time. Was it a good call or a bad call? I'm not going to say it was a great call, and I'm not going to criticize it.

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We'd like more production out of a lot of things, our running game is one of them, ... You have to be careful you don't try to do what isn't there. You can try to run the ball 20 times but if you have very little production it doesn't help.

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