Pete Newell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.
-- Pete Newell

#Basketball #Team #Responsibility
I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.
-- Pete Newell

#Believe #Boards #Pieces
Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.
-- Pete Newell

#Teaching #Practice #Two
There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.
-- Pete Newell

#Team #Groups #Individual

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.
But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.
Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.
On current form, both teams will probably lose.
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work â€” because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

Pete Newell famous quotes

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