Brené Brown

It's from Jacob Ries, who was an early 20th century Danish-American photographer, reformist.

And here's what the quote says.

I think you'll love this.

Do you know it?

No, tell me.

Adam, you don't?

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Yet at the hundredth and first blow, it will split in two.

And I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

So good.

It's so good around, I think, kindness and love.

wins when coupled with discipline and commitment.

And the thing, as you know, I'm a San Antonian, my parents were from San Antonio, I was born in San Antonio.

I think as long as I can think back on the Spurs and Popovich, the three words that come to mind are discipline, commitment,

Not compliance, but commitment and love.

And every team I've worked with that worked from that ethos has had incredible winning experiences.

Not every season and not all the time because it doesn't work like that.

But to me, we started this conversation, interestingly, about the paradox of toughness and kindness and

You know, I think that's when you're sitting with someone in grief or you're the spurs.

It takes toughness to sit with someone in grief and it takes deep kindness.