The Winning Difference
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TWD is designed to educate and develop better athletes, but more importantly, to help develop better people. Strive for excellence not just victory.
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"To be successful at anything, the truth is, you don't have to be special.
You just have to be what most people aren't:
consistent, determined, and willing to work for it.
No shortcuts."
@TomBrady
The path to greatness is simple, but it's not easy.
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“I’m always going to make sure that our players are respectful. I’m always going to make sure that they know the history of the game. I’m going to make sure that they are always respectful to our opponents. When you do it that way, in return you have success,” Dawn Staley
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"All of us are addicted to tomorrow...but making it happen today is how you improve.” Nick Saban
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"We talk about the will to win.
Let's eliminate the will to win and think about the will to prepare to win.
Because the preparation is much more important.
Everyone wants to win, but not everybody wants to prepare to win." - Bob Knight
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"Run hard when it gets hard to run. Everything starts with discipline. Practice until you can’t get it wrong - not just until you get it right. If you don’t respect it enough to do it right-when it’s the right way to do it, how can you be trusted in a game?" - Nick Saban
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"Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups. But winners assemble as a team." -Parcells
We are not a team because we wear the same uniform. We are a team because we respect, sacrifice, trust, and care for one another.
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“Don’t be a blame guy. That’s the first sign of loser mentality when you blame someone else for a mistake,” Kirby Smart
A winners response to adversity inspires others to seek greatness.
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"It's feeling vs. choice. Are you going to do what you feel like doing or are you going to choose to do the things you need to do to accomplish the goals that you have?"
Average players make an effort when they 'feel like it.'
Great players choose to make a relentless effort.
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As adults, we need to stop 'stealing the struggle' from our kids. When we 'steal the struggle', we steal their opportunity for growth & learning.
We need to prepare them for the path (teach resilience, reflection, and self-respect), but we can't prepare the path for them.
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“The amount of points you score doesn’t determine whether you are playing good or bad. Your point total is never an indicator of how you play. It’s how hard you work and how good of a teammate you are,” Caitlin Clark
A true difference maker on and off the court.
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"It's called changing a limit. Parents today don't allow their kids to change their limits. They're worried about them failing instead of learning. But you learn through the experience of failure & success"
Don't steal their struggle. Productive struggle produces positive results
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“We are not here because of talent or ability. We are here because of 4 a.m. We are here because of two-a-days or five-a-days. We are here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. Never satisfied. Never finished. Rest at the end not at the middle." -Kobe
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“You can overcome anything with God on your side, with hard work on your side. With the belief, the faith. the perseverance and the resilience. It’s all about how you overcome adversity in life. Just sticking together as one and not letting anything break us,” Paige Bueckers
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"If you love kids enough, you're going to discipline them. I can't imagine not disciplining kids; it would be then that I don't care." -Summitt
Discipline is a coach holding you to a higher standard than you hold yourself to. It's something your coach is doing for you NOT to you.
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"Your attitude is your greatest characteristic. You don't control your intelligence, your size, or your God-given talents. What you do control, though, is your attitude. We can all have a positive attitude. It's a choice we make. It gives us the courage to never fear failure."
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.” - Lou Holtz
Talent is common. Discipline is not. It is not talent that divides the good from the great; it's discipline, fortitude, and effort.
@Dame_Lillard
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“We spend a lot of time focusing on the parents. Are they going to be fans of their son or parents? Are they going to hold them accountable? Have an expectation that when something goes wrong, that it’s not the coach’s fault. Their son has to work harder, do more, earn his role,”
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There's a ceiling to talent. There's no ceiling to someone's hunger & to someone's drive to be the best. How hard a team works, how hard they play, how together they are- there's no ceiling to that. Many times in life what's invisible is what's important.
@TeamCoachBuzz
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When Pat Summitt's son was cut, she was upset but-
She didn't blame the coach or call the school.
She told her son,"You didn't work hard enough.I guarantee if you wear out both of those basketballs,you'll make the team."
Don't prepare the path for them- prepare them for the path.
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"My bad isn’t accepted here. We have a commitment to excellence. You need to do what you are supposed to do - instead of looking like you’re doing what you’re supposed to do."
@DeionSanders
Great teams only do things two ways: the right way or again. Commit to 'the first time'
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“I’m very different than your parents because your parents don’t want you to fail and be uncomfortable. I love you enough to allow you to fail. If you’re trying to get to the next level, you’re going to have those days,”
@dawnstaley
You must learn how to fight before you can
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Coach Staley called a timeout for an injured UCLA player.
Competitiveness towards an opponent and compassion for an opponent can coexist.
Competition makes us better players/coaches, but compassion makes us better people.
@CoachCoriClose
@dawnstaley
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@MarcWYFFNews4
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Mike Leach on the college football playoffs in 2017:
"Let's get us a committee.
Why not?
Then,we will decide which 4 teams should go.
We don't need to solve this on the field.
Conference champions don't even necessarily make the playoff b/c the committee knew better."
Thoughts?
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"To be successful, to be great, the thing people have in common, they realize they really don't have a choice. There is one way-the right way-the hard way. There are no shortcuts. You have to be willing to do something that somebody else isn't willing to do."
@KirbySmartUGA
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“I’m very different than your parents because your parents don’t want you to fail and be uncomfortable. I love you enough to allow you to fail,”
@dawnstaley
Success is built from your ability to learn from adversity.
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“Praise and criticism are both just as dangerous, if you don’t handle them well. Winning is just as dangerous as losing if you don’t handle it well. Our guys handled winning the right way. Whether we won or lost, we just moved onto the next game,” Joe Mazzulla
Humility wins.
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"My biggest fear is anyone going to learn how to fail? They don't want to endure the process. It's okay to fail. You don't learn as much from winning as you do from losing."
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"I want to see you practice. Because, how you practice is who you are."
@DeionSanders
Average players search for 'the secret' to success.
Great players know 'the secret' to success is consistent daily habits and routines.
'Embrace the boredom of consistency' every practice.
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It's not a line.
It's a measurement.
A measurement of commitment.
A measurement of sacrifice.
A measurement of respect.
A measurement of integrity.
A measurement of fortitude.
A measurement of effort.
It's a symbol to remind us that greatness lies in the smallest of details.
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"Criticism is a tax on success. If you're getting criticized, appreciate it. It means you're winning more than you're losing. No one criticizes the underdog, the eight-seed, the perennial loser. Don't let that [criticism] get you down. Enjoy it. You've earned it."
@chrisbosh
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"Kids don't realize it these days, but to struggle is a good thing.
It makes you into who you are.
Struggles meant I had to invest more and try harder."
Struggles in sports aren't setbacks; they're stepping stones to success.
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"We want guys that drink out of the water hose, not guys whose mommy's bringing them a Powerade. If you can get your culture tough -your kids tough, you have an advantage today.”
It takes more than muscle, practice, and talent. At some point, it requires toughness and grit.
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"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day. Workout after workout. Effort is between you and you. Nobody else can give you effort. Effort is what is inside. "
@raylewis
@MiamiHurricanes
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"You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning."-Parcells
Average players push back when being coached.
Great players want to be pushed by a coach.
Don't allow ego to prevent improvement.
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“If you practice at a high level all the time, you’ll be able to play in a game at a high level all the time. If you don’t do it in practice and you think you’ll be able to do it in a game probably not going to happen,” Nick Saban
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“Winners keep their heads up; they don't drop their heads. Our guys were not going to walk off the floor with their heads down. We are going to approach it like tough things are going to happen in our life, and we don't get to wallow in it. We got to keep moving forward, and
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“Don’t be a blame guy. That’s the first sign of loser mentality when you blame someone else for a mistake,” Kirby Smart
A winners response to adversity inspires others to seek greatness.
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As adults, we need to stop 'stealing the struggle' from our kids/players. When we 'steal the struggle', we steal their opportunity for growth & learning.
We need to prepare them for the path (teach resilience and confidence), but we can't prepare the path for them.
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The only thing a coach cares about is your -ability:
-coachABILITY
-reliABILITY
-crediBILITY
-accountABILITY
-responsiBILITY
-adaptABILITY
-dependABILITY
-respectABILITY
-likeABILITY
The best part - you have the ABILITY to control all of these ABILITIES.
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"There's a difference between playing & competing. You don't prepare yourself to be the best at the beginning. You prepare to be the best at the end. Everybody can play in the first 20 minutes;it's the last 5 minutes you have to be ready to compete. That's when banners get hung."
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“Competing is competing, it doesn’t matter what level you are at. There’s things that you can work on, there’s things you can improve but competing that’s within you. You’re either going to compete or you’re not,”
@ShedeurSanders
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“If you want to be successful, you need to be bad. Then you need to be good and when you are good, you need to fail. When you fail, you’re going to figure it out. There is a process. There are steps you need to fill. There are no shortcuts, it’s a journey,” Nikola Jokic
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Embrace the P.R.O.C.E.S.S.
P-Patience is required for long-term success
R-Reflection & self-evaluation lead to growth
O-Overcome adversity
C-Commit to your goals
E-Endurance to keep going
S-Stay focused on consistent growth - not results
S-Sacrifice & discipline are required
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"Ego says 'I can do no wrong', whereas confidence says 'I can get this right.'
Confidence says 'I’m valuable' while ego says 'I’m invaluable.” - Todd Henry
Ego is artificial
Confidence is earned
Ego expects the outcome
Confidence earns the outcome
Starve ego. Feed confidence.
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"If I have to fight to get you in the gym, that's a problem. You want players that want to work. The best way to prove your value is to work. As hard as you believe you can work, you can always work harder than that. You always want to outwork your potential." -Kobe Bryant
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Leadership begins with your heart and your willingness to make a difference in the lives of others.
“He’s the best leader I’ve ever been around by far. Just authentically loves his guys. Same guy every single day,” Frank Ragnow on his head coach Dan Campbell
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"The real issue isn't cutting the corner or stopping short of the line. It's what it reveals about your character. The temptation to choose the easiest, quickest, or cheapest way only increases the gap between you and greatness."
@AllistairMcCaw
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When athletes play for the team, not the spotlight, magic happens.
Success is not about individual glory; it's about collective achievement.
It's not about who stands out; it's about who stands together.
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@MarchMadnessMBB
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"It's the human condition to be average.
It's normal.
It's special to get somebody that wants to be the best they can be and understand how important it is to earn it."
Average is easy.
But true success isn't found in comfort.
Be relentless and leave your mark on greatness.
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“Never compromise your principles; never lower your standards. Whatever it is that you desire to do in life, have the courage and commitment to do it and do it to your absolute best.” - Pat Summit
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“Life is difficult. You have to overcome adversity if you’re going to have a chance to be successful in your life. There can be no great victories in your life unless you overcome adversity. You can’t be a great competitor unless you overcome adversity,” Nick Saban
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"Run hard when it gets hard to run.
Everything starts with discipline.
Practice until you can’t get it wrong - not just until you get it right.
If you don’t respect it enough to do it right-when it’s the right way to do it, how can you be trusted in a game?"
- Nick Saban
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"It's just consistency. It's just good old fashioned 'do the work' every single day. Days that you don't feel like doing it, you show up and you do it. And when you do that -every day- for a long period of time, you wind up having a success that goes on for quite a few years."
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The Importance of NOTHING.
You're entitled to NOTHING.
Nobody owes you NOTHING.
You can have talent but you if don't have discipline and execute-what do you get? NOTHING.
NOTHING is acceptable, but your best.
Everything is determined by what you do-there should be NOTHING else.
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"You have to decide to be successful. You don't just inherit the right to be successful because you show up. Your commitment has to exceed whatever your goal is."
@CoachVenables
Talent is common, but commitment is not. Discipline is not. Are you willing to do what others are not?
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"Your mistakes don't lose you games. Your response to mistakes, lose you games. We don't want reactions; we want responses."
In sports and in life, your response-ability is your responsibility. Don't react (that's emotion) to mistakes. Respond (take action) to mistakes.
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"The greatest compliment to any player is to be called a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates."
@JayBilas
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"Don’t do the easy wrong; do the hard right. You have to go against your nature. It’s not in everybody’s nature to get up every morning & work. When we don’t have a challenge, we are not our best. That’s what drives us."
Average or exceptional; each challenge requires a choice.
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"I think the important thing that sports teaches is so many life skills. You learn - how to handle adversity, how to sacrifice, you learn discipline...and a lot of commitment. If you want to really be good, you have to be willing to make the sacrifice."
@MuffetMcGraw
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"We have to have a great environment. A great environment produces individual great days & collective great days.
We all bear responsibility to make sure that we elevate this floor that we are walking on daily.
If you are trying to be great, participation is required." -Tomlin
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“To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms,” Tom Brady
Effort makes a difference.
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"Greatness is the most lonely thing that you'll ever do. But it's the most consistent thing that you'll have to commit to. Because greatness don't stop once you understand it's a lifestyle"
Greatness is not a choice. Greatness is many choices over & over. Choose greatness daily.
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"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that’s teamwork." -John Wooden
Being a great teammate doesn't require a skill set. It requires a mindset.
@paigebueckers1
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"The amount of respect you show something is in proportion to the preparation you put into it. Preparation doesn't guarantee a result, but it does guarantee growth. That's what we're all trying to do in life. We're trying to grow-every step of the way."
Work to 'guarantee growth'
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"Discipline-this is a word that we take for granted. There's no way you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in life if you're not disciplined. You're going to have to involve discipline to go to the next level."
Talent is required, but discipline divides good from great.
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“They don’t put championship rings on smooth hands.” -Dabo Swinney
What comes easy won't last.
What lasts won't come easy.
No shortcuts. No secrets. Work for it.
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Many want success. Few want to do what it takes to be successful. Many want to win. Few are willing to be disciplined enough to develop winning habits. Many want greatness. Few will make the sacrifices that greatness requires. Are you one of the many or one of the few?
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"There's two kinds of pain in life.
There's the pain of discipline, and there's the pain of regret.
Sometimes these guys don't like the pain of discipline (practice every day-get in the gym-get in the weight room).
But the pain of regret is with you the rest of your life."
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“Cool doesn’t win. You have to be willing to do the uncomfortable things that go into winning. We will not win until we're humble enough to do the things it takes to win games. Winners know why they win. They know tangibles win games. Losers don't know why they lose”-Mick Cronin
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"You don’t get rewarded for doing what is required."
@inkyjohnson
Greatness is not given to a chosen few. Greatness is given to the few who choose to do 'more than what's required'.
To be great, you have to give great -great sacrifice, great focus, great discipline, great effort.
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"You can fake it to a coach. You can fake it to a teammate. But at the end of the day, you have to look in the mirror and ask, "Did I give my all today?" If you quit on wind sprints, if you quit on 3rd and 2, what are you going to do when life gets tough?"
@inkyjohnson
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Toughness is a talent. I would take true toughness over talent everyday. When you have both then you have a true champion. -Donnie Jones
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"Today is the only important day of your life.
Yesterday is gone.
It will never change.
Tomorrow can only be affected by what you do in preparation today.
And failure to prepare is preparing to fail."
Every choice you make today shapes who you become tomorrow.
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"Everybody has to have a vision for what they want to do, but they have to have the discipline to execute it every single day. You can't do just what you feel like doing. You have to choose to do the things you need to do to accomplish the goals that you have." - Nick Saban
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"Toughness is not a talent; it’s a skill. It is something you can develop. Toughness is mental and physical strength to do what you are supposed to do no matter what the circumstance, no matter how hard it is, no matter what the conditions are, no matter how you feel."
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“Lou Gehrig said,‘When you love the work, you don’t cheat it or the demands it makes of you. You respect, even the most trivial aspects of the pursuit.’
We're going to respect that the little things aren't the littlest things; they're the biggest things in our team’s pursuit.”
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The road to success is always under construction.
Champions don't focus on competing with an opponent.
Champions compete to be better today than they were yesterday. There is a need to improve in defeat or victory-even in the smallest way.
Nothing to prove-a lot to accomplish.
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“The greatest characteristic you can have is a great attitude. It's your choice every day when you wake up. You also have to understand and appreciate the value of hard work. Nothing really matters if you don't give great effort.”
- Jay Wright
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"When you get an opportunity to play, you have to take advantage of that opportunity. You're being judged. I am judging them on who understands what we're trying to do and who will take pride in doing those things. In life, you have to earn everything"
Don't expect it. Earn it.
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“You have to get to a mode where you are solely worried about doing your job and being responsible for that with your teammates.
Anything else you get distracted and lose focus on what actually matters.”
Winning teams have players that focus on being the best for the team NOT
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“Show up at work every day and get out of my car excited, have fun and be around people that want to be here. Be in an environment you want to get to every day. 💯 percent success,” Tony Vitello
Winning starts with the attitude, enthusiasm and passion you give to your team.
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"Every player should not be focused on who they are playing against, relative to their motivation, but every player should want to be the best player that they can be. That's how you get good - that's how you develop the right habits - that's how you're consistent."
#RollTide
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"I'm cool with my kids failing. It's part of the process. Every day there is adversity. It's okay to make a mistake. Get back up & keep going forward."
@KirkHerbstreit
Don't protect our kids from adversity. Prepare them for it.
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Coaches have favorites.
A coach's favorite player works hard, has a positive attitude, puts in extra effort, is coachable,& team-oriented. These players aren't necessarily the most talented, but they do consistently demonstrate the qualities that contribute to the team's success.
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"Great teammates hold each other accountable to the high standards and excellence their culture expects and demands."
@jongordon11
Your culture is not what you say or hang on the wall; it's what you accept from one another on a daily basis.
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“The biggest thing is coming in and being intentional about every single thing we do, no matter how long we go on the court. You have to win practice every single day if you want to win on game day,” Caitlin Clark
The winning habits of a relentless competitor embody greatness.
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“I feel like he’s my son. I love these kids so much.”
“I love you too Coach.”
The relationships you have with your coaches and teammates make a difference.
@EricPMusselman
@RazorbackMBB
#marchmadness2023
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"Nobody is entitled to a position. Everybody has earned the position that they are in by showing that they have the capability & ability to do it on a consistent basis. You have to respect what it takes to win."
Success comes to those that deserve it - not those who desire it.
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"Kids inherently want to be good teammates. I try, when I recruit, to identify those kids that still have an interest in being good teammates."
Average teammates want to be the best on the team when they play.
Relentless teammates want their team to be at its best when they play.
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“Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups. But winners assemble as a team,” Emlen Tunnell
You can choose to be a winner.
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"We didn't earn these chairs. Your talent didn't earn those chairs. These guys (& girls), when they were your age, interrupted their life - paused their education. They changed their career, and gave their life for those chairs."
Today we honor all that served-thank you, Veterans
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"Success is not a continuum. Just because you were successful does not mean that you will continue to be successful. You have to understand that you always need to try to improve & get better, & you need to continue to do the things that helped you be successful to start with."
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"You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate or you're not."-Brad Stevens
You can bring your ego, or you can bring your energy. Either way it will impact the team and the game.
Choose to be a relentless teammate-choose energy.
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“It’s not what you are capable of; it’s what you are willing to do. Plenty of people are capable. Fewer people are willing. ” - Mike Tomlin
Stop sacrificing what you want most for what you want right now.
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"Each day attitude is a choice, & effort is a choice. You have to choose your vision over your circumstances. You have to have a big picture of where you want to go and you have to simplify that & do the things necessary to get there independent of the circumstance."
#GoGators
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“Two choices. Throw in the towel, quit and be mediocre or you can fight, grind and do the hard things you need to do to be successful,” Nick Saban
Winners have choices when they lose.
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"I think truth is good for kids.
We want everybody to feel good. That's not the way life is."
@DeionSanders
Mediocre players would rather go unnoticed.
Good players want to be praised for their current skills.
Elite players crave honest feedback & coaching to become greater.
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"We don't talk about winning championships. We talk about becoming champions"-Nick Saban
Winning a championship depends on a single outcome.
Becoming a champion depends on daily choices to be disciplined, make sacrifices, & to be dedicated to the process.
Choose to be a champion.
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