Jack Ramsay Quotes

#1. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

Isadora Duncan

#2. One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

Mary Harron

#3. Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

Jack Ramsay

#4. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#5. Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

Jack Ramsay

#6. Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

Jack Ramsay

#7. I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

Matt Smith

#8. Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Jack Ramsay

#9. Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

Ellen J. Barrier

#10. The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

Jack Ramsay

#11. When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it,

Zhang Huan

#13. A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

Jeff Beck

#14. I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Jack Ramsay

#15. Where are we? (Jericho)
Noir's happy place. It's where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus)
Punish. (Jericho)
You say ta-mah-to. I say to-mah-to. (Asmodeus)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

Jack Ramsay

#17. A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

Jack Ramsay

#18. A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

Steve Weinstein

#19. This is why I should consider breaking my straight-edge vow. Beer most certainly would help this situation. It probably couldn't make it any worse. Basic

Rachel Cohn

#20. A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Jack Ramsay

#21. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Jack Ramsay

#22. Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

Jon Krakauer