Lenny Wilkens Quotes

#1. What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?

George Vecsey

#2. I never really had a chance to know the players individually ... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Lenny Wilkens

#3. We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Lenny Wilkens

#4. The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

#5. I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

Lenny Wilkens

#6. One grain of incense with devotion offer'd
'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.

Philip Massinger

#7. Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Lenny Wilkens

#8. If you want it, you've got to give it.

Lenny Wilkens

#9. Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

Lenny Wilkens

#10. If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

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#11. I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Lenny Wilkens

#12. I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Lenny Wilkens

#13. If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

Lenny Wilkens

#14. I have a dream that one day this world will be very peaceful and people will fight, not with their weapons, but with their love.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.

Ali Shaw

#16. I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

Lenny Wilkens

#17. The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Lenny Wilkens

#18. Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.

Rachel Maddow

#19. What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

F. W. De Klerk