Winners are not born, they are self-made.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one.
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
Make Winning an Attitude.
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Put the Team Before Yourself.
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
If it doesn’t bother you, it won’t bother them.