Quotes about inexperience (16 Quotes)


    They got after it on defense. My hat's off to them. They did a good job. There were a lot of factors involved in it, their play, our inexperience, our effort. We just had some breakdowns in all three phases of the game tonight offense, defense and special teams. It's hard to play catch up against a team like Ben Davis. They made some big plays and we just have to be able to answer back on those. We just couldn't quite answer them tonight.


    It's an old cliche, but I'm an old coach so I can use it All it takes is all you got. You look at him and you say he should be a double-double guy for us. Because of his inexperience and age I don't think he got the most out of his ability, and he's just starting to realize now you have to work tremendously hard to get results.

    This team has gone about their business as good as any team I've played on or been around. That's the way they've gone about it since they showed up. There was just a lot of anxiety and inexperience for the first three months of the season last year. We cut a lot of teeth.

    Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.


    We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models.

    A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience . . .

    He's one of the type of people we want to bring in. Many younger musicians are very talented performers but their inexperience makes their performances unpredictable. His ability level and his high level of experience makes a huge difference.

    As a result, Nagin himself has become part of the debate over how best to rebuild the devastated Big Easy. Critics suggest the qualities that endeared him to Orleanians before Katrina, among them his political inexperience and his shoot-from-the-hip approach, make him the wrong man for the massive, labyrinthine job ahead. But his supporters, especially members of the business community, say the reconstruction project offers Nagin, 49, a chance to dramatically change not only New Orleans' skyline but also the more larcenous and dysfunctional side of its free wheeling culture. I'm still high on him, ... He's the right leader to bring the city backespecially when you consider that the corrupt old guard could try to exploit this disaster and come back into power.


    I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. Laughter and applause If I still have time, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said, If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.''


    Defensively, we're coming along. Offensively, experience is a little bit of a factor, but we need to get better in the attack and holding the ball so we're not defending too much of the time. You have no control over inexperience. So from week to week we're a little more experienced.



    If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the inexperience of old age, their young men are far too wise to be ever sensible.



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