Paul Westphal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
-- Paul Westphal

#Sports #Keys #Games
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
-- Paul Westphal

#Basketball #Running #Play
Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.
-- Paul Westphal

#Basketball #Fun #Desire

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
You always catch the wrong players.
I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

Paul Westphal famous quotes

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