Bo Ryan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
-- Bo Ryan

#Basketball #Teaching #Passion
Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them
-- Bo Ryan

#Basketball #People #Fake
I recruit hungry kids who love the game and want to get better and feel they have more questions than answers
-- Bo Ryan

#Basketball #Kids #Games
I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence
-- Bo Ryan

#Basketball #Persistence #Perfection
You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.
-- Bo Ryan

#Discouraging #Persons
The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.
-- Bo Ryan

#Trying #Ends #Things To Do
Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.
-- Bo Ryan

#Years #Trying #Indiana
Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.
-- Bo Ryan

#Taken #Games #Two
It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.
-- Bo Ryan

#Way #Shame

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.
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
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.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Bo Ryan famous quotes

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