17 Quotes by Carl Elliott

On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity.

The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

He tries to block everything. When you go in there, you've got to go in strong, or you don't go at all.

He's a great coach, and he's going to make you better. He asks every player to believe in what he's teaching and believe in the system. He's such an exciting coach, you see him jumping on the sidelines and stuff. As a player, you like to see him get excited because he's excited for you and he wants to win, and that's been exciting for us. You just want to do what he asks.

I think we were very intense and put a lot of ball pressure on them. Coach wanted us to come out and pressure their guards, make them do things out of duress. That's what we did.

It had a high arc, and as it was coming down it looked like it was off, so I just attacked the glass. I just got up and started running. I don't know what I was thinking. I went to my mom and gave her a hug and told her I loved her.

I think we all realize this, but like most things we already know, this has been empirically verified by academics with grant money.

Our goal is to keep it moving and ride this as long as we can. One of the things Coach Hobbs keeps telling us is that as fast as we've gotten to where we are, we can fall out just as fast if we don't focus on getting better every day and moving forward.