Pete Newell Quotes

#1. Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

Mike Krzyzewski

#2. Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

Pete Newell

#3. Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.

Pete Newell

#4. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

#5. I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

Eve Ensler

#6. I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.

Chris Toumazou

#8. As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

Kenneth Grahame

#9. There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.

Pete Newell

#10. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Hermann Hesse

#11. I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

Pete Newell