Coach George Karl Quotes

#1. We had a great preseason. The guys responded with what coach (George Karl) wanted early on in pace of the game, togetherness and defensive intensity. We've improved in those areas with a couple of setbacks, but we've improved each game.

Scott Brooks

#2. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Thomas Sowell

#3. I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.

Mitch Albom

#4. My darling boy whom I shall never know,
My son, I love you in my deepest fears ...

Allen Tate

#5. You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Dean Koontz

#6. Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

George Karl

#7. There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

George Karl

#8. The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

John Stuart Mill

#9. I admit, I am a demon at nintendo.

Nick Carter

#10. Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

George Karl

#11. Appear as you may wish to be

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I'd rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.

George Karl

#13. It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.

Tim Macartney-Snape

#14. I have never intimidated the masses ... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Zhu Rongji

#15. People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

Ramez Naam