Chris Arledge

Carrying out my purpose through education, sport, and the spoken word. Hamilton HS 🤟🖤#agape #warriorculture #poundtherock⚒️⚒️

[Chris Arledge @CoachArledge]

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[Ralph Pim @KeepDrivinOn]

John Thompson believed the game of basketball was not the end goal, but rather a vehicle to opportunity. Through demanding discipline & strong mentorship he prepared his players not just for basketball success but also for life beyond the game.

[Mano Watsa @manowatsa]

As great a shooter as Steph is, he may be even better at this...

#MondayMindset @PGCbasketball @PGC_Coaching

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

Truth!

[Kevin Richardson M.Ed. @coachkevinrich]

I live a 1/4 from said bridge. I saw a train go across it an hour ago. I had no idea they could rebuild it in less than 5 days. Amazing.

[Coach Vint @coachvint]

I talked a dad who told me he spent $10k a year on travel baseball between tourneys, travel, and gear for his son. He got a partial scholarship to D-2 school. If he had put the $10k in a mutual fund each year, he would have had about $190,000. The scholarship was $5k a year.

[Chris Arledge @CoachArledge]

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[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“The signature of individual greatness in a team sport is the ability to elevate others beyond their natural capabilities,” Sam Presti

A winner doesn’t thrive on competition, they drive collective growth.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“The signature of individual greatness in a team sport is the ability to elevate others beyond their natural capabilities,” Sam Presti

A winner doesn’t thrive on competition, they drive collective growth.

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

KIRK COUSINS ON LEADERSHIP
"You don't use people to advance your position, you use the position you have to advance people."

𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧.

Be a person of influence.

📹 via @AtlantaFalcons

[JIM BOONE 🏀 @CoachJimBoone]

“Why do you think I’m the best Player in the world, because I never get bored of working on the basics, the fundamentals!”
~ Kobe Bryant

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kara Lawson shares a message every competitor needs to hear.

"Don't give me the power to affect your self-esteem, who you are as a person, and how good a practice you can have. Don't ever give someone externally the power to touch you in that way."

Your mindset is yours. Protect it.

"If you give someone externally the power to impact how good a day you're gonna have, what type of attitude you're gonna have, how hard you're gonna work - you're ceding something that's really, really valuable in life."

"You control that. Don't give me that power. Don't let me control whether you're gonna have a good day or not, or whether you feel good about yourself."

You choose how you want to show up.

"No one gets to own you. I don't get to own you. Nobody does. Nobody should."

"Don't give anyone that power. That's important."

Take ownership of yourself, your attitude, your effort, and your confidence.

They all belong to you.
(🎥 @DukeWBB)

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.

Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥

You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.

Hard is the lesson.

What’s one hard lesson sports taught you that helped later in life? 👇

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“Basketball is War. Picking up 94 feet helps our mindset because we know we are playing to live, not playing not to die”

[J.P. Hovey @jhovey34]

Honestly was not expecting Eric Church to give one of the best commencement speeches of all time.

Chief CRUSHED this 🫡

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Chris Beard explains why comfort gets you beat.

"Comfortable gets you beat every single time."

"You win a big game, and the next time there's the letdown, there's that loss. I think life's the same way."

Comfort is the enemy of progress.

"It takes a special person - we use the word elite - to remain uncomfortable."

"Coach Knight would talk a lot about when things were going good, shake the tree from time to time."

"Only the elite can push themselves each day to stay uncomfortable."

"Uncomfortable is where growth comes from."

Growth comes from embracing discomfort.

It means be willing to push your limits every day.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

@WinningCoaches Ben McCollum said, "Your job is to not be here for yourself - but it’s to be here for everybody else."

Great teams are built of selflessness.
• You show up for each other.
• You sacrifice for each other.
• You win with each other.

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

KOBE BRYANT ON MENTAL TOUGHNESS

🎯 “Being mentally tough means you can take your mind someplace else.

Concentrate on that other thing to the point where the thing that was bothering you is no longer a focus and you don’t feel it anymore.”

[Chris Arledge @CoachArledge]

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[Luke Falk @coachlukefalk]

Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story.
The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid.

The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better.

The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else.

It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch.

But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice.

You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel.

Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be.

It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start.

The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel.

In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed.

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[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Rick Pitino said it best.

Love without discipline spoils.
Discipline without love hardens.

You need both.

[Chris Arledge @CoachArledge]

This right here!! #PmP

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Great players bring the right approach every day no matter what. Wins are just a byproduct of the foundation you build.

As a coach my job is to shoot them straight. If you tolerate a day off in prep you teach them that excellence is optional. It never is.