George Raveling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
-- George Raveling

#Inspirational #Basketball #Fall
Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.
-- George Raveling

#Basketball #Thinking #Old Things
I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class
-- George Raveling

#Smart #Silly #Player
When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
-- George Raveling

#Basketball #Running #Football
Everybody in the world is talking about Canadaâ€¦outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.
-- George Raveling

#Basketball #Country #Blue
More games are won during practice than during the game itself.
-- George Raveling

#Practice #Games
In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking.
-- George Raveling

#Thinking #Ideas #Order
The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.
-- George Raveling

#Want #Feedback
The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!
-- George Raveling

#Data #Decision #Information

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

George Raveling famous quotes

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