Tara VanDerveer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.
-- Tara VanDerveer

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Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge.
-- Tara VanDerveer

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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.
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
God didn't miss any of us.
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Tara VanDerveer famous quotes

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