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duly noted
Way to STEAL Coach Pop's quote!!! That's his quote and everybody in basketball knows it. Jacob Riis may have said it first, but Coach Pop ing owns that .
duly noted
If Pop didn't coin it, it's not his.
Besides, that quote is opposite of how the NBA works. Everyone says it was the last shot that won the game, not the once before it. Truth is it was all of them and the stops. It's just a way to make people like Danny Green think they are better than they are, and they then play that way.
lol wtf what a rip-off that is the Spurs motto; engraved in a plaque in the dressing room. Another reason to hate Curry
No one cares about a plaque hanging in the dressing room. Curry can't steal what's hanging in the rafters.
everyone knows that the Spurs use this quoute, plaque or no. move by UA
Great commercial. And pop is not the originator heard it way before Pop used it. Dont get why Steph gets so much hate. He seems like a good kid. He does chuck sometimes but is not selfish
what a ing got. pop is not the originator but he made it famous.
Very true
It's his world at the moment...we just living in it.
He's the one who popularized it in basketball. Pop owns that .
To the general public maybe ... But I heard this first in a teamwork leadership workshop back circa 1995 (iirc) and this dude (Riiss)wrote about that back in the early 1900's ...no you guys are not wrong but just surprised (mildly) that people would take issue with UA using a quote that is over a hundred years old just because Pop adopted it as a Spurs mantra ...
http://www.48minutesof .com/coach...cob-riis-spurs
Coach Pop on pounding the rock by Andrew A. McNeill
The pounding the rock mantra has been around San Antonio Spurs culture for several years now and gained some national pub along the way. The folks at Pounding the Rock even named their blog after the famous Jacob Riis quote.
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
J.R. Wilco of Pounding the Rock asked Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich during a pregame press conference about the origins of the stonecutter quote and why he brought it to the team.
"That was a long time ago. Well, I guess I never really… well let me just say it was a long time ago. It was back in the 90s and I was reading something about immigration in New York way back when, that kind of thing, and he was a reformer. He fought for better housing and better conditions, working conditions, that type of thing, for immigrants of all countries."
“He was relentless at it and that quote that we use is obviously his quote, and I thought it embodied anyone’s effort in any endeavor, really. It doesn’t have to be basketball. It can be a musical instrument or it can be learning mathematics or going to law school or figuring out how to turn the water off in your house because you’re an idiot. If you can’t figure that out you just keep looking, keep trying, keep going.
“The way he said it was very eloquent, and I thought that it fit. You get tired of all that other junk. ‘Winners never do this’ or ‘Losers always quit.’ ‘There’s no I in team’ — all the typical, trite silly crap you see in locker rooms at all levels. It’s always turned me off, so I thought that this was maybe a little bit more, I don’t know, intelligent. A different way to get to the guys and make them think about it.
“They’ve had that in their brains for a long time. They’re probably totally tired of it, but it’s worked well for us… They’ve been brainwashed pretty good by now… I’m leaving right after Ghadafi. They’re going to get rid of me… I’ve been here too long."
It's on their championship ring tbh
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