Lisa Nuxol-Wilson

Steph Curry says the first test of whether someone really wants to become great is if someone has to tell them to go to the gym “I always tell kids now, nobody should have to tell you you should go to the gym, right? As a kid I was that type of kid, I was going to find a gym wherever.” “My dad played in the league, so it’s not like the access wasn’t there, but he couldn’t be the one telling me it’s this time, ‘What we doing today?’ If I’m not the one pushing that, start there.” “It always became just a joy of finding ways to get better. Every day I was just exploring, trying stuff. Never really satisfied with the level that I was shooting. Even if I had the greatest workout, I’m probably thinking about the couple of misses that I had. I was always curious about how can I get better the next session?” “Just exposing myself to different thought processes, being uncomfortable, getting in gyms with players better than me.” “If you’re not getting anything out of it, there’s that internal voice that’s like, ‘I probably coasted today.’ Or, ‘No, I did something. I got something out of this today.’..” “When I got to the league, I thought I was preparing myself for the NBA journey… Just putting myself around people who knew what they were talking about and pushing me in the right direction.”

Geno Auriemma says the hardest part of coaching isn’t winning games but instead dealing with parents who believe their child should play 35 minutes every game “My job is hard. It’s hard because, in the world that we live in today, parents are so delusional. Every one of them thinks their kid is better than Maya, better than Stewie, better than Paige, better than anybody.” “They think they should play 35 minutes every single game. These kids are under so much pressure that if they don’t live up to that, they’re not having any fun.” “What makes my job hard is trying to make sure these kids all understand that it can be a lot of fun, but everything has to be in perspective.” “Sometimes the hardest part of my job is that we’ve all kind of lost perspective of how all this works and what it means.” “Winning games and all that stuff, that’s not hard. It’s the other stuff that’s hard.”