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. -- Jacob Riis
"當我感覺無助時，我會去看鑿石匠捶打石頭，也許捶打一百次也沒有一個裂縫。但是第一百零一次捶打后，石頭裂成兩半了，我知道造成這個的並不是這最后一次捶打，而是整個過程。"
據說這塊牌子是馬刺主帥波波維奇十幾年前安到馬刺更衣室的。
波波維奇希望能有一個稍微睿智一點的更衣室格言……而不是已經爛大街的比如"Winners never do this"或者"Losers always quit."或者"There’s no I in team"。
波波維奇接受關於這塊格言牌的采訪時的回復：
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.”
ref:
http://www.48minutesofhell.com/coach-pop-pounding-the-rock-jacob-riis-spurs