West York Boy's Basketball: Quotable Quotes!
"Go hard, or Go home."
- 1998-99 team slogan
"Unfinished business."
-1999-2000 team slogan
"We play the way we practice...hard."
-2000-01 team slogan
"Tradition never graduates."
-2001-02 team slogan
"No excuses."
-2002-03 team slogan
"Foul shooting, like most of basketball, is like a mind trick - you need "J.E.D.I." to succeed. Judgement, Effort, Determination, and Intensity".
- Coach Ackerman
"Practice the way you want to play, and you will surely play the way you practiced."
- anonymous coach
"It's almost like we're friends, but we're enemies."
- Derek Trimmer on his confusing relationship with an opposing player
"Oh man. That will work great!"
- Jeremy Overlander stating the obvious after Coach Ackerman explained an adjustment during halftime
"Sometimes we come home with bloody noses and everything. That's the way practice should be."
- Nate Myers describing preseason practice to a reporter
"Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves."
-Coach Ackerman
"When you go to the lion's den, you don't knock on the door - you kick the dang thing down and scream 'where is the S.O.B.?!'
-Brian Billick, Baltimore Ravens coach
Random Quotes
"The mind messes up more shots than the body." ~Tommy Bolt
"As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit---and parking as close to the stadium as we can." ~Bill Vaughn
"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
~Michael Jordan
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean
"If the leader is slightly out of focus, then the followers become blind."
-Dom Famularo
"It's hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"I have not failed. I have successfully discovered twelve thousand ideas that don't work."
-Thomas Edison
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
-Sivananda Sarasvati
