GLORY ROAD
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
“It’s not about talent, it’s about heart.
It’s about who can go out there and play the hardest.
They’re not going to give us
anything, so you’ve got to go out there and you’ve got to take it.
”
—Coach Don Haskins
For Don...
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GLORY ROAD
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
“It’s not about talent, it’s about heart.
It’s about who can go out there and play the hardest.
They’re not going to give us
anything, so you’ve got to go out there and you’ve got to take it.
”
—Coach Don Haskins
For Don Haskins, the dream was always about winning: winning with guts, heart and
grit; winning with self-respect; and winning even when the odds were completely stacked
against you.
What Haskins didn’t know in 1966—when he was just a small-town family
man trying to make an indelible mark in his first job as a collegiate basketball coach—is
that his underdog team’s incredible victory would transcend sport and change not only
his life and the lives of his players, but the country itself.
Haskins and his scrappy Texas Western Miners were unwittingly about to
revolutionize basketball and the American landscape.
It was still a time of innocence in
the United States, yet the country was on the verge of major social changes when Haskins
decided t
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