quotes about Basketball Leadership

last updated: November 28, 2023

A lion never roars after a kill.
-- Dean Smith

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin

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“Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.”
“I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.”

Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Edward Zwick" by Stax, www.ign.com. March 4, 2002.
“As for LGBTQ people supporting Donald Trump (or other Republicans), I do understand that some of them value his stances on immigration, climate change (I should say "the war on coal"), and the economy over those of equality, fairness, and justice.”
“One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.”
“We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time; but it can be done. That much faith is a prerequisite of any undertaking.”
“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
“But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.”
“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.”
“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
“I think I'm a really hands-on mom.”