Henry Iba famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
-- Henry Iba

#Sports #Thinking #Psychology
Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.
-- Henry Iba

#Basketball #Daughter #Son
Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.
-- Henry Iba

#Basketball #Play #Coaching
We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.
-- Henry Iba

#Basketball #Play
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
-- Henry Iba

#Basketball #Teaching #Men
I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.
-- Henry Iba

#Basketball #Shots
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
-- Henry Iba

#Sports #Race #Psychology
Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.
-- Henry Iba

#Player #Week #Teach

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.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

Henry Iba famous quotes

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