No One In The World

"There is no one in the world I can't beat."
-Bobby Fischer


"Tactics flow from a superior position."
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves."

The Gift

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
-Steve Prefontaine

Leadership

Leadership is influencing others to be the best.
Leadership is setting the standard.
Leadership is making others around you better.
Leadership is making others around you bigger than yourself.
Leaders are measured by leading a team through adversity.
Leaders are never allowed two bad days in a row.
Leaders take us to a better place.
Leaders take us where we cannot take ourselves.

Heroism

"Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer."
-Norwegian Saying


       John Anthony Brooks World Cup Goal vs. Ghana

Laziness

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

-Jules Renard

Laws Of Coaching

10 Laws Of Coaching

#1 Coaching is controlling the game
#2 Coaching is the execution of a game plan
#3 Coaching is an overachieving season
#4 Coaching is a chase towards an ultimate goal
#5 Coaching is giving your players the gift of confidence
#6 Coaching is believing in the impossible & getting it
#7 Coaching is emphasizing only what leads to winning
#8 Coaching is training the little things that lead to the big things
#9 Coaching is accepting only the highest standards
#10 Coaching is saying thank you & I love you!

Leadership

"An army of deer led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a deer." -Coach K

Winning Mentality

"The winning mentality is partly optimism, but mostly it’s a combination of focus, pride, competitive anger, relentlessness, hardness, fitness and courage--all the most descriptive words for competitive athletics.  This type of mentality is not about your skills or tactics.  What it comes down to is intense desire.  To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will.  This means you must be relentless; you must never give up." -Anson Dorrance

The Vision

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." 
-Anson Dorrance

My Heart Is Full

"Being perfect is being able to look your teammates in the eye and know in your heart that you did everything you could to make them a champion…so today put each and every teammate in your heart, live in this moment and know that forever is about to happen!"  Friday Night Lights MOJO

A Man's Failures

"You cannot measure a man by his failures. 

You must know what use he makes of them. 

What did they mean to him. 

What did he get out of them." 

-Orison Swett Marden

Our Failure

“And even in defeat, our failure will tower over other people’s success.”

Alexander the Great

No Weaknesses

"My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses."
-John McEnroe

The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead
Vision-know where you are going
Drive-work hard to get there
Inspiration-take others with you
Destination-finish what you start

Set Him Free

Inside of every person is greatness waiting to be released.

Longing For The Sea

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Great Players

"A great player makes more opportunities than he finds."

The Mountain

            "Mountains are where players become great."

Climbing The Mountain

"Only someone who has climbed to the top of the mountain knows what it takes to get there."

A Lifetime Of Training

"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds." -Jesse Owens

Closer To The Heart

"Closer To The Heart" By Rush
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart

Philosophers and ploughmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
You can be the captain
I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart



Leadership is explained perfectly in this song.
Leadership is all about the heart.

A Championship

"A championship is something that everyone wants until they get it.
And then they want more."

The Chase

"We are not chasing championships.
Championships are chasing us."
-Kevin Ollie (UCONN National Champion)

The Finish

"It's not how hard you push along the way.
It's having what it takes to finish." -MJ

The Last Game

"Play every game like it will be your last.
And one day you will be right."

Perfect Effort

"No one expects you to play perfect.
Everyone expects you to give a perfect effort."
-Bob Ladoceur (De La Salle Football Coach)

The Dream

The Dream Of True Coaching

"I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers.
And I become all the other dreamers." -Walt Whitman

Breaking Bad

"A great coach turns bad habits into great habits."

Rumi On Sports

Rumi

 

Your task is not to seek for success,

but merely to seek and find

all the barriers within yourself that

you have built against it. --Rumi

Load The Ship & Risk The Ocean

Load the ship and set out.

No one knows for certain whether

the vessel will sink or reach the harbor.

Cautious people say,

"I'll do nothing until I can be sure".

Merchants know better.

If you do nothing, you lose.

Don't be one of those merchants

who wont risk the ocean. -Rumi

I'll Meet You There

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and right doing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

Looking For Success?

When you come looking for success,
your bag will be examined
to see how much it can hold;
it will be filled accordingly.

Rumi

Two Wings To Fly

Life turns you from one feeling to another 

and teaches you by means of opposites, 

so that you will have two wings to fly - not one.

Rumi