"Be yourself; everyone else is taken." Nobody can be Dean Smith or Clair Bee, but adopt best practices from many coaches.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." "Make the big time where you are."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." There are many ways to succeed and even more to fail.
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) Be careful what you wish for.
"I can resist everything except temptation." "Do the right thing right now."
"There is only one thing worse in the world than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." There is no such thing as bad publicity?
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his." Nobody's perfect, well, at least us men.
"True friends stab you in the front." Acknowledging our mistakes makes us smarter today than we were yesterday. Real friends tell us when we're wrong.
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally." Time wounds all heels.
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect." We can suffer the wounds of lack of preparation more often than lack of knowledge.
Lagniappe: FIBA Horns: Pick-and-pop, back cut...a ball reversal horns set.
