George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
george rogers
I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
gave require sends virginia
Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!
joyful
In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.
competition goes junk truth
The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
challenge coaches coaching danger days gives highs lifestyle nba seldom sleep three tremendous zone
Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.
consistent truthfully
I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I'd rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.
best player
The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.
code lived
I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.
games possession prove run wrong
I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?
agents compromise money negotiate paid players
There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.
longer
Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
named settled towns
The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
afternoon american-novelist cable clear curb drove forth miss office tallest trap waited
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
accuse fair former god hardly learn letters order word
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.