Wisdom from Bob Hurley

Coach Hurley, 15 years ago, co-wrote a book called Divided Loyalties: The Diary of a Basketball Father (copies still available on Amazon.com). So much of what he wrote at that time is still applicable today. On the topic of attitudes of winners versus losers, he offered his Ten Commandments (thanks to Coach Chovan for the reminder of the list). A few of those gems follow:

• a winner goes through a problem, a loser goes around it and never past it
• a winner says "I'm good, but not as good as I ought to be", a loser says "I'm not as bad as a lot of other people"
• a winner feels responsible for more than his job, a loser says "I only work here"
• a winner works harder than a loser and has more time, a loser is always too busy to do what is necessary
• a winner shows that he is sorry by making up for it, a loser says "I'm sorry" but does the same thing next time