Pete Carril Quotes

#1. Coaching is preparation.

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#2. Coaches win practices, players win games

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#3. In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

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#4. If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts his full potential.

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#5. Eli had shone a light into my world, he'd lit up the dark corners just by existing and even if I walked away now, I knew I'd ache for him.

E.M. Denning

#6. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

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#7. Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

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#8. It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

Erwin McManus

#9. The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

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#10. Work hard to make things easier.

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#11. I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

Leon Krier

#12. Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made

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#13. It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

Tom Moody

#14. Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

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#15. A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

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#16. The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

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#17. I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

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#18. Bad shooters are always open

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#19. Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

Kathleen Hanna

#20. If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at you, you've lost him. If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at himself, then you have something.

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#21. I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

Martin Amis

#22. Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

#24. I believe the objective of coaching is winning with integrity.

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#25. The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

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#26. The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

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#27. belief in yourself that you can do it, and the ambitious dedication to doing what needs to be done to do it.

Ervin DeCastro

#28. I love wraps and shawls.

Torrey DeVitto

#29. Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

Mary Jo Bang

#30. Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Matt Haig

#31. Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

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#32. A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,

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#33. The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

Noam Chomsky