Wilkens Quotes

#1. What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?

George Vecsey

#2. I do a lot of a cross training.

Geoff Stults

#3. We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Lenny Wilkens

#4. The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

#5. I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

Lenny Wilkens

#6. I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

George Lucas

#7. Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Lenny Wilkens

#8. If you want it, you've got to give it.

Lenny Wilkens

#9. Syn spread Furi's legs wide and buried his face down further but he still couldn't reach his destination. "Turn over, baby." Furi

A.E. Via

#10. Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

Lenny Wilkens

#11. If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Lenny Wilkens

#12. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#13. I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Lenny Wilkens

#14. I never really had a chance to know the players individually ... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Lenny Wilkens

#15. I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Lenny Wilkens

#16. If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

Lenny Wilkens

#17. However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

John Eaton

#18. His silhouette blocked the starlight. She turned her head and a sticky kiss landed below her ear. She tried to relax, but her arms wouldn't move from their defensive position on his shirtfront. His next kiss grazed her cheek. "Jesse." "You remembered my name.

Catherine Richmond

#19. I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

Lenny Wilkens

#20. I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

Tess Gerritsen

#21. The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Lenny Wilkens

#22. Without wonder, you are dead and I am older. The girl in the mirror looks devastated. Like someone really has pushed a brick through her ribcage.

Kirsty Eagar

#23. I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Camille Claudel