Peter P. Carr quotes

“Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.”
-- Peter P. Carr

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“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.”

“Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.”

“It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.”

“When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!”

“"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”

“Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.”

“This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.”

“The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.”