Friday, October 11, 2024

101124 Basketball Quotes Plus...

A Note from Hayden…

I was raised in the state

of Kentucky.

 

I had the distinct

Pleasure of meeting

Kentucky Coach Joe B. Hall

When I was a freshman

Basketball player for

The Webster County

Trojans.

 

He was Recruiting

Freddie Cowan

A player who went on

To have a good career

With the Wildcats.

 

The Mark Pope era

Begins tonight with

The event Coach Hall

Inaugurated…

“Big Blue Madness”

 

These inspiring quotes

Are from some of the

Greatest to ever coach

The game I love so much!

- Hayden Childs

Enjoy!

 

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Bottom line, you’re either a

risk taker or you’re not.

And if you don’t take risks,

you’ll never win big.”

- Coach Geno Auriemma

 

Basketball doesn’t care what

color your skin is.

It doesn’t care what language

you speak or what religion

you practice.

It doesn’t care if you’re big or small,

fast or slow.

It just asks you to play, to complete,

to lose with dignity, to win with humility.

- Coach Jim Calhoun

 

Empower the people around you,

from the janitor to the athletic director.

You do that by being sincere,

caring about others and then

putting it into practice.

- Coach Sue Gunter

 

When life kicks you,

let it kick you forward.

- Coach Kay Yow

 

Everyone should want to excel in life.

You should never take the desire to

excel away from the human race.

- Coach Henry Iba

 

Discipline is the highest form of love.

If you really love someone,

you have to give them the level of

discipline they need.

- Coach Tom Izzo

 

If you laugh, you think and you cry,

that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day.

You do that seven days a week,

you’re going to have something special.

- Coach Jim Valvano

 

The will to succeed is important,

but what’s more important is

the will to prepare.

- Coach Bob Knight

 

A basketball team is like

the five fingers on your hand.

If you can get them all together,

you have a fist.

That’s how I want to play.

- Coach Mike Krzyzewksi

 

Talent is God given. Be humble.

Fame is man-given. Be grateful.

Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

- Coach John Wooden

 

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Success is the best

Builder of character.

 

Your defense will save you

on the nights that your offense

isn’t working.

 

He who controlleth the backboard,

controlleth the game.

 

We feel that every boy that

Puts on a Kentucky uniform

Just plays a little better

Than he would in one

Of another color.

 

- Coach Adolph Rupp

 

“The Baron”

“The Man in the brown suit”

 

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For order and a society to exist…

And a Basketball team is a society

Within itself…

It needs discipline.

- Coach Joe Beasman Hall

 

Humility is the true key to success.

Successful people lose their way at times.

They often embrace and overindulge

from the fruits of success.

Humility halts this arrogance and

self-indulging trap.

Humble people share the credit and wealth,

remaining focused and hungry to continue

the journey of success.

- Coach Rick Pitino

 

Every coach in America at every

other job in America stands up at

the press conference and they try

and moderate expectations,”

“We don’t do that here in Kentucky…

When (athletic director) Mitch (Barnhart)

called me and talked to me about being

the head coach here at Kentucky,

I understand the assignment.

We are here to win banners.

- Coach Mark Pope

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On, On, U. of K.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5Uhh1djNo

 

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