Please and thank you make you feel good. Others
around you can sense the message you are sending about being
grateful and humble.
It’s not my job to determine when the light is going to go
on. It’s my job to keep flipping the
switch.
To say that something is inherently flawed and, thus cannot be
corrected, means we are simply followers and not rational beings capable of change
and growth.
Can you be happy for someone if they get a Mercedes and you
spent the same time and money and ended up with a Yugo? Can you be satisfied?
I’ve never walked up to a coach or another person and said I
wanted to be like them. I’ve always looked
to a philosophy and worked to be true to it.
Do you think a child has ever envisioned a game or player he was
dreaming about and the dream involved him sitting on the bench?
Most team sport’s games are lost by one team not won by the
other.
You play the players who are playing the best not the best
players.
You don’t have starters.
You have players that start.
Playing time is fluid.
More is not necessarily better.
Sometimes you have to do the right thing just because it’s the
right thing to do regardless of the consequences.
If it was just about money, then only Bill Gates and Warren
Buffett would win.
If it’s a must-win game and you don’t win, then what?
Peace of mind is victory.
Short-term always costs more long-term.
If you have to play one sport year round to compete, how do
athletes who play more than one sport compete?
How do injured players out for a year come back and compete?
If you have to pay for play, how do the poor people make it to
Division I?
I was watching little kids running around at the park laughing,
playing and having fun with a ball. When
did that stop being a great idea?
If there had been a meeting when it was decided that
pay-for-play sports with year-round participation became the norm instead of
the exception, I would have raised my hand and said, “Hey, I don’t think that
is such a good idea.”
Think of youth sports as the equivalent to playing a piano.
Different songs require different notes. All musicians are not going to be comfortable
with playing all the notes the same way. If a note on the piano is not in tune,
the musician must adapt and use other keys. He or she never forgets the weak
note and goes back to it and nurtures it to its former level.
It could be like an extension ladder. It has support on both
sides for strength. The support takes the form of teammates, coaches, and
family. The ladder also has an extension
to it so that the base from which you climb up can be adjusted to a new level.
Finally, as you get nearer the top, you need more support from the base not
less.
You do a lot more of getting
along at work than you do competing with other employees.
If winning is so important,
name the 2010 NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NFL Playoff Champions.( No cheating)
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