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38. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together
is progress. Working together is success.
- Henry Ford
39. "If a coach is determined to stay in the coaching
profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach
has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the
game. The only secrets if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals.
Intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to
instill in the boys a desire to win."
- Adolph Rupp
40. "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they
may follow you wherever you may lead. Look upon them as your beloved
sons and they will stand by you even unto death. If, however, you are indulgent,
but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce
your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorders, then your
soldiers must be likened to spoiled children. They are useless for all tactical
purposes."
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu Wu, c. 450 B.C.
41. "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
- Wayne Gretzky
42. "Your attitude is either your best friend or
your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability."
- John Maxwell
43. "Practice doesn't make perfect….it makes permanent."
- John Maxwell
44. I here and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand
