Vince Kehres quotes

Sometimes when your emotions are running high, it makes it harder to execute.
-- Vince Kehres

#Running #Emotion #Sometimes

You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.
-- Vince Kehres

#Player #Always Trying #Cards

I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.
-- Vince Kehres

#Thinking #Style #Mold

[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.
-- Vince Kehres

#Basketball #Couple #Nuts

Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.
-- Vince Kehres

#Fun #Hollywood #Opponents

The best thing that a coach can have is experience. The first time that you're going out to lead a team on the field, you have certainly thought about what you're going to say, but it gets easier as you go. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, not just about what you do on the field but what you say to players to get them motivated.
-- Vince Kehres

#Team #Player #Going Out

When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.