Robert Hughes shaped the lives of young men from Fort Worth through basketball for 47 years. For that contribution, and for the all-time best 1,333 wins his I.M. Terrell and Fort Worth Dunbar teams piled up along the way, he was inducted earlier this month into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
It’s no great secret how he pushed his teams to 35 district championships and five state titles, either.
“Don’t get outworked. Period,” Hughes said Thursday at a City of Fort Worth pep rally celebrating the recent basketball accomplishments of Hughes, Texas Christian University and Texas Wesleyan University.