Jerry Tarkanian famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Basketball #Cheer #Crazy
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Basketball #Thinking #Player
A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#War #Eye #Hands
Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Wrestling #Thinking #Winning
The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Kentucky #Years #Ncaa
Coaching has been my entire life.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Coaching
During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Stupid #Hands #Pockets
I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Basketball #College #Play
I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.
-- Jerry Tarkanian

#Basketball #Nice #Kids

I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i was drawn in.Everything about you.."One of his hands left my waist and moved up to gently caress my arm."You make me crazy with need.With want.I didn't understand it at first.But now i know.It's your soul calling to me.Souls mean nothing to me.They aren't supposed to.But yours has become my obsession.
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Jerry Tarkanian famous quotes

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