John Quotes

When you are through learning you are through.

Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

I don't think I was a fine game coach I think I was a good practice coach.

You have not taught until they have learned.

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned.

Place the team above yourself always.

You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.

Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.

Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

Countries make policies for themselves. And Donald Trump wants to make - that's his policy.

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn't make any sense either.

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

There was nothing wrong - and everything right - with analyzing a law that establishes boundaries on interrogation in the war on terrorism.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.