Bob Sundvold quotes

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.
-- Bob Sundvold

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If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

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.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.