"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."

-- Oscar Robertson

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“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”
“When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'”
“I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window....”
“Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.”
“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.”

Source : "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel". Book by Brady Udall, www.npr.org. 2001.
“Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by... I'm going to say hello to her and ask her how she's enjoying her summer vacation, and just sort of talk to her... You know..." "You'll never do it, Charlie Brown... You'll panic..." "Besides that, she's already walked by!”
“Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.492, Head of Zeus Ltd
“In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models â€“ that is, they are responsible for learning.”

Source : "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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