Tarkanian Jerry Quotes

#1. The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

Jerry Tarkanian

#2. were often in a similar boat. Jane knew what I was once,

Anne Bennett

#3. The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Diane Keaton

#4. Hold onto the magic of being a boy( ... ) once you lose it you are always begging to find it again.

Robert McCammon

#5. Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos ...

George Pataki

#6. Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

Jerry Tarkanian

#7. Coaching has been my entire life.

Jerry Tarkanian

#8. confiscated, were subjected to torture, and were even killed.

Louay Fatoohi

#9. They shared a small moment of bizarre, companionable silence -they boy who'd forgotten everything about his history, and the boy who'd never known it.

Cassandra Clare

#10. I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

Jerry Tarkanian

#11. I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

Jerry Tarkanian

#12. The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

Carlos Gavito

#13. Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

W. H. Auden

#14. During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

Jerry Tarkanian

#15. To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Nevil Shute

#16. The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Jerry Tarkanian

#17. Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.

Ellen Hopkins

#18. I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Troy Duffy

#19. A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war.

Jerry Tarkanian

#20. People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Joseph Campbell

#21. The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.

Erin Kelly

#22. The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.

Jerry Tarkanian

#23. Be master of your destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets.

Charlie Kaufman