Jay Bilas famous quotes

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Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence
-- Jay Bilas

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The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with
-- Jay Bilas

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The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates
-- Jay Bilas

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The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.
-- Jay Bilas

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Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.
-- Jay Bilas

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Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.
-- Jay Bilas

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Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.
-- Jay Bilas

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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.
If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

Jay Bilas famous quotes

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