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The game of basketball is a game of accepting failure; of accepting imperfection; of realizing that the perfect game has never been played, never will be played, or ever could be played. — Tony Alfonso

It is far better to shoot an airball than to not shoot at all for fear of missing. — Tony Alfonso

What to do with a mistake – recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith

Play the game with a smile. — Earl “The Pearl” Monroe

I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.— Michael Jordan

We are not going to play them; they are going to play us. — Hank Iba

If you practice with emotion and purpose you’ll play with passion and confidence.

When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right. — Tony Alfonso

Athletes that can’t listen, can condition. — Chuck Daly

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot … When you think about the consequences, you always think of a negative result. — Michael Jordan

Go up to the free throw line knowing your going to make it, not knowing you won’t miss. — Hilary Ashmead

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson

Most players prepare for disaster. A good player prepares for success. — Tony Alfonso

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort–it is ready to climb. — Pat Riley

Our goal is not to win. It’s to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself. — Mike Krzyzewski

Show respect for yourself and for your team by working hard and diligently practicing the skills that will give us a good team.

All the successful teams I’ve ever seen have three characteristics: They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard. — Larry Brown

Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success. — John Kundla

When it comes to team dynamics — on a basketball court or in a corporate setting — maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial. — Rick Pitino, Rebound Rules: The Art of Success 2.0

Other people go to an office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed. — Jim Valvano

You must be sure that you give back something that’s beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play. — Hank Iba

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation. — George Raveling

Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it. — Marv Harshman

Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.— Jack Ramsay

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet and put the darn ball in the basket. — Abe Lemons

When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you’ve learned in your drills are better than your opponent’s. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.— Bob Pettit

For order and a society to exist – and a basketball team is a society within itself – it needs discipline. — Joe B. Hall

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. — Larry Bird

I’ve always considered myself a crunch-time player. I just love having the ball in my hands. Everyone in the arena knows the ball is supposed to be in your hands and you still make it. It’s the odds. I love the odds. — Reggie Miller

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots. — Larry Bird

Practice to beat the best. — Dick Bennett

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven’t got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure. — Bob Sundvold

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits. — Mike Krzyzewski

The great players show how much they want to play during the offseason — when it’s hot, when it’s tough, and when no one is watching. — Tony Alfonso, The Mentally Tough Shooting Workout

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. — Bob Knight

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. — Dave DeBusschere

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. — Michael Jordan

My definition of discipline is as follows: 1) Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and 2) Do it that way all the time. — Bob Knight

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price. — Red Auerbach

Sometimes, adrenaline flows into momentum. — Dennis Johnson

I’m not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots. — Hank Iba

Some people believe you win with your five best players, but I found out that you win with the five who fit together best. — Red Auerbach

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you’ve got it, you ain’t got it. No pussycats, please. — Bill Russell

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues. — Pat Summitt

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals. — Jack Ramsay

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game…about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building. — Dean Smith

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing. — Larry Bird

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times. — Hubie Brown

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. — Bill Russell

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat. — John Wooden

Family is where we all belong to and from where our identity comes from. A person is valued based on his family and upbringing. We all belong to a family and it is our family that keeps us together through thick and thin. Without having a family, no person is complete and the completeness comes with good family bonding.

Now what is a family? By just saying that you live with your family does not hold any values to being a part of the family. Four or five persons living under one roof does not become a family.

Family is a bond, a long lasting relationship that holds a bond with each other. It all forms when man and women become one and from there a family is born. There are many values that one has to learn to get the family bonding in the right manner. Bonding does not happen overnight. It forms with every second, every minute that you spend with your loved ones. The understanding, the acceptance, the belonging and the security all enclosed together is how a family bond is formed.

A close family bond is like a safe harbour, where we feel secure and where we trust that we have someone always there to whom we could turn to when we need them the most. This bonding helps to build a trust and hope that, no matter what, we have people to be with us in our toughest times. It is through a family that we learn the values of love, trust, hope, belief, cultures, morals, traditions and every little matter that concerns to us. A strong foundation for any individual comes from being with a supportive family.

Being part of a blessed family is one among the greatest gifts that we get in life. In fact the first gift that we get from God. To have parents, who support us, teach us values in life, and gives us a strong foundation in character, teach us the importance of love and being loved, trust to be there for one another and many other morals that could be obtained only from a family. A gift not only with lovable parents, but siblings who care and love us beyond themselves. We cannot buy or demand all these things in life, as we are being given to understand their importance.

Not having a strong family base, may end up in troubles only. A child who does not feel loved or cared, will always turn to ways where he would find them and it may at times lead him in the wrong path. Even at that point, there is no one to correct him and guide him. The absence of a family is like vacuum, there is nothing that could fill it.

To be part of a happy family, one should always thank God for the blessing we have in lives, as having a family who cares and loves us is the greatest blessing that any person could get in life. When we see broken families for reasons of their own, we should always remind ourselves, how lucky we are to be a part of a family that has been and will be with us all through our lives.

Family should be our priority, and love them with all your heart, as everything else you could get as per your choice, but getting good parents and siblings is a choice that is made by God and you can never demand it!

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.- Steve Jobs
 It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. So get out there and go for it, but don't be caught waiting. It's great to plan for your future. Just don't live there, because really nothing ever happens in the future. Whatever happens happens now, so live your life where the action is — now.
 The person who you’re with most in life is yourself and if you don’t like yourself you’re always with somebody you don’t like.
 Do one thing at a time. Give each experience all your attention. Try to resist being distracted by other sights and sounds, other thoughts and tasks, and when it is, guide your mind back to what you're doing."

Teaching learning process involves a teacher and a student. It is very important for both of them to have a healthy relationship in order to carry out the teaching learning process smoothly. Teachers are known to be the second parents. Parents provide us moral education and teachers provide us rest of the knowledge necessary for living and knowing the world. The gurus of ancient era are now addressed by ‘sir’ or the last name. The child’s relationship with the teacher determines the grade and academics of the student. Teachers control the destiny of the students for more that two decades. Ultimately, the product comes out. The way the teacher  has shaped the mind and creativity of the student then shows. Establishing a positive teacher student relationship helps to yield a beautiful environment in the classroom. A teacher is also a guide, a friend, a counselor and also like a gardener who waters the tiny flowers called children.

If the teacher student relationship is to be maximally productive, must reflect certain attitudes and commitments of each to the other. First, the student must respect his or her teacher and hold him in the highest esteem. Even though this instruction may be uncomfortable and disconcerting at times, but a teacher always wants his student to do good.50 the student must believe that the teacher always has his or her best interests in mind. All the time, the teacher looks forward to improve his student and polish the creativity in the student.  The student must commit himself or she to following the instruction with utmost discipline, just as a doctor’s orders must be followed precisely, since failure to do so could cause harm, so a teacher’s advice must be obeyed with equal sincerity.  A teacher is the student’s path finder. When we need to move on or are stuck with something, teacher helps us find the way.

  Teacher  is like a potter who craves mud into a fixed shape, and turns it into a pot. Teachers always stand by the students, to guide and support them.

The Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters afforded retired team captain Jimmy Alapag one of the highest honors that can be given to a player after they retired the No. 3 jersey of the man they called the "Mighty Mouse."

Alapag's No. 3 jersey was retired during the halftime ceremony of the 2015 PBA All-Star Game in Puerto Princesa, Palawan.

The emotional ceremony was attended by Alapag's family, including his brother and sister who flew from the United States to watch the former TNT captain receive the honor.

"It has always been my dream, bata pa lang ako, to be here with all these incredible people in this incredible league," said Alapag. "I feel so very blessed these past 12 years to have been a part of the PBA's rich history."

Alapag, who got choked up several times while speaking to the Puerto Princesa crowd, expressed his gratitude to Talk 'N Text management for taking a chance on him and taking him with the 10th pick of the 2003 PBA Rookie Draft.

He also thanked his teammates, including good friend Asi Taulava, saying they made his career and his life "that much more of a blessing."

To his wife, LJ Moreno, and kids, he said: "You guys are everything to me, I look forward to this next chapter of my life and trying to be the best father and the best husband that I can be to you guys."

He also thanked the PBA fans in Palawan and in the Philippines, saying: "It has been my absolute honor and pleasure to be in front of you these last 12 years. I can't thank you enough. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the love, the support, and the prayers, for Talk 'N Text and for Gilas."

"I'm proud of Philippine basketball, I'm proud of the PBA, and I know there's only bigger and brighter things to have with the next generation of guys who will be competing and representing us in the years to come," he added.

Alapag was honored by his longtime coach, Chot Reyes, with whom he won four PBA titles as well as the silver medal in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship.

"It's been a hell of a ride, my friend," Reyes told Alapag. "Thank you for making my job easier. Thank you for being the perfect player and like I've told you so many times, you've had so many achievements, but the best years of your life are still yet to come."

Taulava was also visibly emotional during the ceremony, and indeed the current NLEX forward has been relishing the chance to play one last time with Alapag during the All-Star Game.

"Thank you for being such a good friend, being a great little big brother to me throughout our whole career. You've been there for me not just once but so many times when I was down," Taulava said.

"You put Philippine basketball back on the map," Taulava told Alapag. "I wish you all the best in the next chapter of your life, and I know you're gonna do a good job with Talk 'N Text management."

Moreno, for her part, said that she "married a legend," and expressed her pride in marrying not only a great basketball player but also a great man.

Alapag won six championships in his career and was the PBA's Most Valuable Player in 2011. He was also the 2003 PBA Rookie of the Year.

He now serves as the team manager of the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters. 

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