As the NBA finals are set to begin Thursday night, it gives us reason to remember the words of wisdom supplied by San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.
They aren’t his words. But he popularized them in the NBA way of looking at things.
It’s the story of the stonecutter and the famous quote from social-reform journalist Jacob Riis from around 1900.
Riis quotes that, as he watched the stonecutter hammering away at his rock 100 times without so much as a crack, it was the 101st blow that split it in two.