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“And I promise, I will do everything in my power to get you to college and to a better life.”
—From the movie Coach Carter
“I’ve only had two kids in 39 years that have not gone to college. And we’re extremely proud of that because we think that we’ve opened up doors in kids’ lives that they didn’t know that they could do.”
—Bob Hurley
一个篮球教练的职责是什么？难道不是带领球队赢得比赛？如果没有看过影片《卡特教练》和本文要讲述的鲍勃·赫利教练的故事，我想我不会想到一个篮球教练心中的使命是让自己的球员们都能上大学。这不关乎一场球赛的输赢，也不关乎一个教练的荣誉，这关乎一群孩子们的未来……
High school basketball is one of the most popular sports in the country and those who follow it on the national level, particularly college 1)scouts and coaches, are familiar with St. Anthony of Jersey City, New Jersey, and its coach, Bob Hurley. Going into this season, St. Anthony had won 23 state championships and three national titles under Hurley, who is one of only three high school coaches ever inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In nearly 40 years at St. Anthony, Hurley has never earned more than a $9,000 annual 2)stipend, passing up 3)lucrative college jobs to change lives in the inner city and to help save a small struggling Catholic school by putting it on a very big stage.
But this is not a story about a 4)tyrannical coach who 5)churns out athletes at some high school sports factory, it’s about values, loyalty, and commitment at a small inner city 6)parochial school that doesn’t meet anyone’s idea of what a basketball powerhouse should look like.
St. Anthony is in an old brick building with no gym, in a rundown neighborhood not far from the Jersey side of the Hudson River facing New York. There are only 240 students, most of them from families living below the poverty level, who somehow manage to scrape together the $5,000 tuition. They are not here to have fun, they’re here to get better and to learn how to win from one of the masters.
Host: This is your program. There’s no mistake about that?
Bob Hurley: Yeah, I think my fingerprint is on everything that we do. I’ve had five NBA first round picks. I’ve had about 150 kids by 7)Division I basketball. I think everybody can be better than they think they can be. And I don’t let them dictate, I dictate everything.
Host: You’re very tough and very demanding on these kids.
Hurley: But I’m dealing with adolescent males. And in order to get them to perform on a regular basis, this group of people, I have to drive them. It is no question I have to drive them. We would never be as good. Even the best teams I’ve had, there has to be times when you know you have to really push the pedal.
Host: You make the kids sign a contract?
Hurley: Yes.
Host: When they come here?
Hurley: Don’t know that it’s legally binding, but you know, when I have to 8)mete out justice, as far as I’m concerned, it’s a legal document. Yeah, it’s up to 19 things now.
Host: What are some of them?
Hurley: Alcohol, cigarettes, 9)narcotics is one; some of them are haircuts, short haircut. No tattoos. Jewelry has to be basic. You know, a ring, a watch…
Host: You have drug tests?
Hurley: I’ve drug tested entire teams.
Host: Do you have rebels and get people rebel against this?
Hurley: Oh, yeah. I think that’s why there are 10)hinges on doors. You know, this is not meant for everybody.
It’s meant for bright, talented kids who are committed to earning a college basketball scholarship and competing at the next level.
Host: So of all your accomplishments, what are you proudest of?
Hurley: I’ve only had two kids in 39 years that have not gone to college. And we’re extremely proud of that because we think that we’ve opened up doors in kids’ lives that they didn’t know that they could do. Their families certainly didn’t know they could do it. And it’s as with…because of education, it changes the direction of their life.
He could have left St. Anthony for the big time long ago. There have been any number of opportunities to coach at the college level. But he’s never been that interested in money or glamor and each time decided to stay put in Jersey City.
Host: There are a lot of inducements for people to move on. There’s money. There’s the challenge of proving yourself at the next level. You weren’t interested in either of those things?
Hurley: No. I always felt that, you know, the challenge here was pretty strong.
11)Sister Felicia and the entire school were at Rutgers for the national championship game a few weeks ago, and it did not begin well for St. Anthony. But after 12)trailing most of the game, St. Anthony’s superior conditioning, 13)poise and coaching, finally turned the tide. They outscored St. Patrick 23 to 5 in the final quarter and won in a 14)rout. They closed out the season with their 24th state championship and 4th national title. It was the perfect ending for the season and for our story. The players’ dreams had been realized, and the lessons well learned.
高中篮球是美国最受欢迎的运动之一。只要是关注全国高中篮球运动的人，尤其是大学球探和教练，对新泽西州泽西市圣安东尼高中以及该校的教练鲍勃·赫利都不会感到陌生。在新一季球赛之前，圣安东尼高中在赫利教练的指导下已拿下了23次州冠军和3次全国冠军。赫利教练是仅有的三位进入篮球名人堂的高中篮球教练之一。在圣安东尼高中的近四十年来，赫利年收入不超过九千美元。他放弃收入丰厚的大学工作，努力想要改变市中心贫民区孩子的人生，帮助一所艰难维持的小型天主教学校，想让它跃上大舞台。
但这并不是一个火爆教头在高中校园大量“制造”运动明星的故事，而是关乎价值观、忠诚跟奉献。故事就发生在这所贫民区教会学校，也许根本没有人会相信这里是篮球强队学校。
圣安东尼高中只是一栋陈旧的砖砌大楼，没有体育馆。它坐落在一个破落社区，离哈德逊河纽约市对面的泽西河岸不远。全校只有240名学生，多数来自生活水平低于贫穷线的家庭，但不管怎么样，他们还是凑出了五千块学费。他们并不是来玩乐的，他们来这里是为了让自己变得更优秀，并且跟大师学习致胜之道。
主持人：这里你说了算，没错吧？
鲍勃·赫利：是的，我们所做的一切都是我的意思。我曾培养出5位NBA首轮选秀球员，150位打一级篮球的球员。我认为大家都能做得比自己想象中的好。我不会让他们决定，而是一切由我说了算。
主持人：你对他们非常严格，要求很多。
赫利：因为我面对的是青少年，想让这些孩子有稳定的表现，我就必须激励他们。毋庸置疑，我得激励他们。不然，我们不会有好表现。即使是我带过的最好的球队，有时候你也得好好地鞭策球员。
主持人：你让孩子们签了合同？
赫利：对。
主持人：当他们来这里时？
赫利：我不知道那是不是有法律约束力，但我必须按照其内容行事。就我所知，那是合法文件。对，我们一共有19项规定。
主持人：具体有哪些规定呢？
赫利：譬如禁酒、禁烟、禁毒。还有一些要留短发的规定，不准刺青，只能佩带一些基本装饰品，譬如戒指跟手表。
主持人：你们会做毒品检验吗？
赫利：全队都得做毒品检验。
主持人：有人反抗吗？有球员违规吗？
赫利：当然有。我想那也是大门只对某些人敞开的原因，你知道，并非每个人都适合这里。
这里只适合那些聪明有天分的孩子。他们立志要拿到大学篮球奖学金，迈向更高的篮球殿堂。
主持人：你所有的成就中，最让你感到自豪的是什么？
赫利：三十九年来我教过的孩子中，除了两人外，其余的都上了大学。这是我们最自豪的事，因为我们为这些孩子提供了机会，而他们原来也许并不知道自己真的能做到，他们的家人也不知道。是教育让他们的人生有了新的转折点。
很久以前，他就有机会离开圣安东尼高中，到大学当教练。但他对金钱或名气都没兴趣，每一次他都决定留在泽西市。
主持人：很多原因诱惑大家离开，包括金钱或是证明自己能做得更好的挑战，你对那些事完全没兴趣？
赫利：没错。实际上我觉得这里的挑战就很大。
费丽西娅修女跟学校所有人几星期前来到罗格斯运动中心，为全国锦标赛加油。圣安东尼高中一开赛表现并不好。虽然在比赛中一路处于落后状态，但圣安东尼高中训练有素的好状态、好球技和好教练最终扭转了局势。他们在最后一节以23比5大败圣柏德高中。球季结束，他们拿下第24个州冠军，第4个全国冠军，为这一季球赛和这个故事都划下了完美的句点。球员们实现了自己的梦想，也上了宝贵的一课。
翻译：Sue
—From the movie Coach Carter
“I’ve only had two kids in 39 years that have not gone to college. And we’re extremely proud of that because we think that we’ve opened up doors in kids’ lives that they didn’t know that they could do.”
—Bob Hurley
一个篮球教练的职责是什么？难道不是带领球队赢得比赛？如果没有看过影片《卡特教练》和本文要讲述的鲍勃·赫利教练的故事，我想我不会想到一个篮球教练心中的使命是让自己的球员们都能上大学。这不关乎一场球赛的输赢，也不关乎一个教练的荣誉，这关乎一群孩子们的未来……
High school basketball is one of the most popular sports in the country and those who follow it on the national level, particularly college 1)scouts and coaches, are familiar with St. Anthony of Jersey City, New Jersey, and its coach, Bob Hurley. Going into this season, St. Anthony had won 23 state championships and three national titles under Hurley, who is one of only three high school coaches ever inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In nearly 40 years at St. Anthony, Hurley has never earned more than a $9,000 annual 2)stipend, passing up 3)lucrative college jobs to change lives in the inner city and to help save a small struggling Catholic school by putting it on a very big stage.
But this is not a story about a 4)tyrannical coach who 5)churns out athletes at some high school sports factory, it’s about values, loyalty, and commitment at a small inner city 6)parochial school that doesn’t meet anyone’s idea of what a basketball powerhouse should look like.
St. Anthony is in an old brick building with no gym, in a rundown neighborhood not far from the Jersey side of the Hudson River facing New York. There are only 240 students, most of them from families living below the poverty level, who somehow manage to scrape together the $5,000 tuition. They are not here to have fun, they’re here to get better and to learn how to win from one of the masters.
Host: This is your program. There’s no mistake about that?
Bob Hurley: Yeah, I think my fingerprint is on everything that we do. I’ve had five NBA first round picks. I’ve had about 150 kids by 7)Division I basketball. I think everybody can be better than they think they can be. And I don’t let them dictate, I dictate everything.
Host: You’re very tough and very demanding on these kids.
Hurley: But I’m dealing with adolescent males. And in order to get them to perform on a regular basis, this group of people, I have to drive them. It is no question I have to drive them. We would never be as good. Even the best teams I’ve had, there has to be times when you know you have to really push the pedal.
Host: You make the kids sign a contract?
Hurley: Yes.
Host: When they come here?
Hurley: Don’t know that it’s legally binding, but you know, when I have to 8)mete out justice, as far as I’m concerned, it’s a legal document. Yeah, it’s up to 19 things now.
Host: What are some of them?
Hurley: Alcohol, cigarettes, 9)narcotics is one; some of them are haircuts, short haircut. No tattoos. Jewelry has to be basic. You know, a ring, a watch…
Host: You have drug tests?
Hurley: I’ve drug tested entire teams.
Host: Do you have rebels and get people rebel against this?
Hurley: Oh, yeah. I think that’s why there are 10)hinges on doors. You know, this is not meant for everybody.
It’s meant for bright, talented kids who are committed to earning a college basketball scholarship and competing at the next level.
Host: So of all your accomplishments, what are you proudest of?
Hurley: I’ve only had two kids in 39 years that have not gone to college. And we’re extremely proud of that because we think that we’ve opened up doors in kids’ lives that they didn’t know that they could do. Their families certainly didn’t know they could do it. And it’s as with…because of education, it changes the direction of their life.
He could have left St. Anthony for the big time long ago. There have been any number of opportunities to coach at the college level. But he’s never been that interested in money or glamor and each time decided to stay put in Jersey City.
Host: There are a lot of inducements for people to move on. There’s money. There’s the challenge of proving yourself at the next level. You weren’t interested in either of those things?
Hurley: No. I always felt that, you know, the challenge here was pretty strong.
11)Sister Felicia and the entire school were at Rutgers for the national championship game a few weeks ago, and it did not begin well for St. Anthony. But after 12)trailing most of the game, St. Anthony’s superior conditioning, 13)poise and coaching, finally turned the tide. They outscored St. Patrick 23 to 5 in the final quarter and won in a 14)rout. They closed out the season with their 24th state championship and 4th national title. It was the perfect ending for the season and for our story. The players’ dreams had been realized, and the lessons well learned.
高中篮球是美国最受欢迎的运动之一。只要是关注全国高中篮球运动的人，尤其是大学球探和教练，对新泽西州泽西市圣安东尼高中以及该校的教练鲍勃·赫利都不会感到陌生。在新一季球赛之前，圣安东尼高中在赫利教练的指导下已拿下了23次州冠军和3次全国冠军。赫利教练是仅有的三位进入篮球名人堂的高中篮球教练之一。在圣安东尼高中的近四十年来，赫利年收入不超过九千美元。他放弃收入丰厚的大学工作，努力想要改变市中心贫民区孩子的人生，帮助一所艰难维持的小型天主教学校，想让它跃上大舞台。
但这并不是一个火爆教头在高中校园大量“制造”运动明星的故事，而是关乎价值观、忠诚跟奉献。故事就发生在这所贫民区教会学校，也许根本没有人会相信这里是篮球强队学校。
圣安东尼高中只是一栋陈旧的砖砌大楼，没有体育馆。它坐落在一个破落社区，离哈德逊河纽约市对面的泽西河岸不远。全校只有240名学生，多数来自生活水平低于贫穷线的家庭，但不管怎么样，他们还是凑出了五千块学费。他们并不是来玩乐的，他们来这里是为了让自己变得更优秀，并且跟大师学习致胜之道。
主持人：这里你说了算，没错吧？
鲍勃·赫利：是的，我们所做的一切都是我的意思。我曾培养出5位NBA首轮选秀球员，150位打一级篮球的球员。我认为大家都能做得比自己想象中的好。我不会让他们决定，而是一切由我说了算。
主持人：你对他们非常严格，要求很多。
赫利：因为我面对的是青少年，想让这些孩子有稳定的表现，我就必须激励他们。毋庸置疑，我得激励他们。不然，我们不会有好表现。即使是我带过的最好的球队，有时候你也得好好地鞭策球员。
主持人：你让孩子们签了合同？
赫利：对。
主持人：当他们来这里时？
赫利：我不知道那是不是有法律约束力，但我必须按照其内容行事。就我所知，那是合法文件。对，我们一共有19项规定。
主持人：具体有哪些规定呢？
赫利：譬如禁酒、禁烟、禁毒。还有一些要留短发的规定，不准刺青，只能佩带一些基本装饰品，譬如戒指跟手表。
主持人：你们会做毒品检验吗？
赫利：全队都得做毒品检验。
主持人：有人反抗吗？有球员违规吗？
赫利：当然有。我想那也是大门只对某些人敞开的原因，你知道，并非每个人都适合这里。
这里只适合那些聪明有天分的孩子。他们立志要拿到大学篮球奖学金，迈向更高的篮球殿堂。
主持人：你所有的成就中，最让你感到自豪的是什么？
赫利：三十九年来我教过的孩子中，除了两人外，其余的都上了大学。这是我们最自豪的事，因为我们为这些孩子提供了机会，而他们原来也许并不知道自己真的能做到，他们的家人也不知道。是教育让他们的人生有了新的转折点。
很久以前，他就有机会离开圣安东尼高中，到大学当教练。但他对金钱或名气都没兴趣，每一次他都决定留在泽西市。
主持人：很多原因诱惑大家离开，包括金钱或是证明自己能做得更好的挑战，你对那些事完全没兴趣？
赫利：没错。实际上我觉得这里的挑战就很大。
费丽西娅修女跟学校所有人几星期前来到罗格斯运动中心，为全国锦标赛加油。圣安东尼高中一开赛表现并不好。虽然在比赛中一路处于落后状态，但圣安东尼高中训练有素的好状态、好球技和好教练最终扭转了局势。他们在最后一节以23比5大败圣柏德高中。球季结束，他们拿下第24个州冠军，第4个全国冠军，为这一季球赛和这个故事都划下了完美的句点。球员们实现了自己的梦想，也上了宝贵的一课。
翻译：Sue