Tom Thibodeau Quotes

#1. The Nineteenth Century And After
Though the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.

W.B.Yeats

#2. The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#4. At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.

Gary Weiss

#5. I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. You can't plead tolerance for gays by saying that they're just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.

Vito Russo

#7. There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.

Tom Thibodeau

#8. Sometimes you need to quit beating your head up against a brick wall because all you get out of it is a bloody head

Catherine Sharp

#9. In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes

Tom Thibodeau

#10. We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Bono

#11. You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

Tom Thibodeau

#12. As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

June Jordan

#13. It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

Nicole Scherzinger

#14. I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.

Tennessee Williams

#15. Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success.

Tom Thibodeau

#16. Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

Jean Houston

#17. People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too

Tom Thibodeau

#18. I'm just titivating our dinner.

Kate Morton

#19. I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

Paul Haggis

#20. You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

Tom Thibodeau

#21. The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes

Tom Thibodeau

#22. You're a sum of all your experiences.

Tom Thibodeau

#23. The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.

Tom Thibodeau

#24. You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you believe in conditioning? Because those are the things I know that do work.

Tom Thibodeau