HABITS

“I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or piece of chalk.  You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change.  It’s a conditioned reflex, created by a repetitive act.  Coaches say, “Stay down low, you gotta get low, but that doesn’t mean a thing if the hid hasn’t physically practiced how to stay low.  Habits are created through physical acts.”


From "A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story" by Bruce Jenkins

(Thanks Coach Starkey)