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• Once I understood them, I could help bring the best out of them by touching the right nerve at the right time.
• good coaches make sure you know how to use both hands, how to make proper reads, how to understand the game. Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them.
• When everyone else was thinking it was time for bed, his mind was telling him it’s time to get ahead of the competition.
• Film study eventually became imagining alternatives, counters, options, in addition to the finite details of why some actions work and others don’t work.
• By reading, by paying attention in class and in practice, by working, I strengthened my focus. By doing all of that, I strengthened my ability to be present and not have a wandering mind. Just as important as reading was cultivating relationships with the greats who’d come before me.