Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn’t doing a very good job.
The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.
Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you.
Strong leaders don’t plead with individuals to perform.
If your ‘why’ is strong enough, you will figure out ‘how’!
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you’re offering.
Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.
You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn’t give him.
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it’s completely crazy is completely crazy.
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.