"The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices"

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Bobby Knight

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“I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.”
“It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.”
“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”
“[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.”

Source : Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)
“It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.”
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”
“For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.”

Source : Michael Lind (2013). “Vietnam: The Necessary War”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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