If you're neither an avid NBA fan nor a well-researched San Antonio Spurs fan (I am both), you probably have never heard of the phrase "pounding the rock", but it's the long-established mantra of the most successful sports franchise in North America (if not the universe):

“When nothing seems to help, I go 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 hundred 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.”​