I don’t know much about basketball, but I do know that if you’re confronted with a chair-wielding maniac like Coach Bob Knight, that you should listen to him. Surprisingly, he was most interesting speaker I have heard in years. Rather than relay his career/professional tips, I’ll instead regurgitate three stories he told to prove his points….
An old man and his grandson are walking a donkey along the road when a car stops and the driver says, “hey old man, you should let your grandson ride on the mule”. So the kid jumps on and they carry on.
Soon enough, another car stops and the occupant says, “hey kid, get off that donkey, you should let the old man ride”. They swap places and continue on their way.
Again a car stops and the driver yells out, “why should one of you ride while the other walks? both of you get on the donkey.” The kid jumps on and they wander on.
A fourth car stops and the driver yells in an agitated fashion, “it’s not enough that the donkey has to work all day? You should be carrying him!”.The two of them jump off, pick up the donkey and begin carrying him down the road.
Eventually they reach a bridge; the donkey becomes too cumbersome, they slip and the poor animal falls to its death beneath them. The moral of the story? If you’re going to try and please everyone, you’re going to lose your ass.
An old man is flyfishing and you can see he is very experienced. A mere flick of the wrist, the line runs deep into the pond, the lure drifts slowly to the water, beguiles a fish and the fisherman expertly brings it in to shore. This goes on for some time until the old man hears a voice,
“hey you! look down here!”.
He glances down and there’s a frog staring up at him. Having gotten his attention, the frog says,
“kiss me. I’ll turn into a beautiful maiden and you’ll have your way with me whenever you want. You’ll experience pleasure no man has experienced. I’ll be yours forever.”
The old man shrugs his shoulders, picks up the frog and dumps him unceremonously into his pocket.
After a while, the frog exasperatedly yells out, “what’s the deal? Kiss me and I’ll turn into a beautiful woman! You can ravish me whenever you want! Don’t you want that??”
The old man replies, “frankly, at my age, I’d rather have a talking frog.”
third story to follow when I can be bothered typing it out…