Tarkanian Quotes

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

Jerry Tarkanian

#2. If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.

Frederick Lenz

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

Jerry Tarkanian

#4. 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

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

Jerry Tarkanian

#6. I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

Bill Wyman

#7. I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?

Bill Maher

#8. I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Betty Wright

#9. This is where the Iliad begins, and it should be the focus of all my energies and professional skills, but the truth is that I don't really give a shit.

Dan Simmons

#10. That's what happened when you were possessed by a woman. All of a sudden you stopped running from love and started breaking all of your own rules ... making a fool of yourself. I was okay with that. - Caleb Drake

Tarryn Fisher

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

Jerry Tarkanian

#13. To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

Paul Rodgers

#14. Make time to relax, refresh and refocus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Coaching has been my entire life.

Jerry Tarkanian

#16. It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

Charles Darwin

#17. There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. 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

#19. I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

Bruno Mars

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

Jerry Tarkanian