Good is not good enough when better is expected
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.
The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
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.
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.
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
We arrive with our. . . 'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers. ' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it. . . 'They're in love'. . . they have none. Then. . . just as you're relaxing. . . a Great Big Juggernaut arrives. . . with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.
I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.