B. F. Skinner Great Quotations

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Here we are playing great basketball, and you'd think they'd take these things into consideration. From an academic standpoint, it has not served us very well. We're going to have to go to the other side of the country. We have to travel to a different time zone. So, we've got some issues, and we've got to try to limit them as best we can.

He just made some great shots. Outstanding players do that.

He's got great hands. He's a tough young man who has a tremendous amount of determination. I mean, his determination is really what makes him the player he is. He's obviously got good qualities - he's got good touch around the basket - but it's his work ethic that allows him to be the quality player he is. I'm just saying I don't think there are many players that play with that type of intensity, particularly freshmen.

Pacific has had a lot of success in this tournament. I thought it was going to be a great challenge for us.

Yeah it was a great day. We had five wrestlers qualify and that's a school record as far as I know. I know that's the most I've sent as a coach. We just had a great day.

We were just lucky. We can't take credit for playing great defense because we didn't.

We're still trying to improve. We're just not going to be a great free-throwing team. That's something we just have to accept. We have to compensate for that.

What's nice is even the kids that didn't make it through get to concentrate on the team tournament. They can focus their energy on that. It's great having everyone in the wrestling room.

We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program.

You can't do that at the state level and hopefully our kids will learn that. We are not hanging our heads and the kids had a great year. We went 31-3 and not many teams can say that.

You hate to give up goals right at the half, but Ben made a great play over there, and we played dumb. We had a couple of chances (to clear the ball) and he punished us for it.

Oh yes, yes, yes, it's great to just get away from the regular schedule you have all season.

Defensively as a team, they just did a great job.

I've got a great appreciation for the focus they've brought. We didn't start off as well as we would've liked in the league. For us to be in the championship game after 0-3 ... it's a tremendous credit for all the guys on this club.

I knew their 112-pounder was one of their best and a state qualifier. Dylan gave him everything he wanted. He really did. Dylan is a great wrestler, but that was a lot to ask from him.

His drive is really that he wants to compete against the best and be one of the best. Most great players, that's what the inner beast is in them. They want to conquer that and show they walk with the best.

(Atkinson) had a great game. We couldn't really get things going and he got it going for us.

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They had a really fun time. The other teams commented on how great our attitude was.

We expected them to give us a good game. I thought this would be a great challenge for us, and that proved to be correct.

It's a great feeling. As tough as our conference is, to go 7-0 is a great accomplishment. It's nice to have the seniors win it for you. That's real special and Sam is a special wrestler. All the seniors are special. We had some matches that could have gone either way. Some of them we won, others we lost. We stepped up and rose to the occasion.