Michael Donald

DB Coach Latta High School-Past Potentate Omar Shrine 23-W.T.T.F.

[Goose Creek Gator Football @GCGatorFootball]

Some kids need to realize that they need football more than football needs them. #Truth

[Old Row Sports @OldRowSports]

Coach Saban testifies on the future of College athletics:

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

@readswithravi Curt Cignetti said, "In life - you got freedom of choice, but not freedom of consequence."

"First you form your habits, then your habits form you."

The small decisions you make daily - those become your habits.

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:

Two kids. One rich. One poor.

Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.

The rich kid has two choices.

Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.

Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.

The poor kid has two choices too.

Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.

Or outwork everyone in the room.

Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.

Same choice for all of them.

Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.

The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.

The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.

Greatness doesn't come from where you start.

It comes from which kid you choose to feed.

Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

[Jacques Doucet @JacquesDoucet]

. @LSUfootball @Lane_Kiffin says two things in particular can poison a coaching staff - egos and agendas.

These things then trickle down to players, who will have a hard time buying into a team concept preached by the coaches.

"I was too much about credit to me." #LSU

[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.

Watch. Share. Bookmark.

[Michael Stroup 🏴‍☠️🌊 @CoachStroup]

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable.

Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average.

If a coach is demanding effort, detail, toughness, and accountability bothers you… that probably says more about today’s culture than it does the coach.

[Coach Corey Crosby, M.ED. @CrosbyCoach]

𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... NOBODY reminds anyone of the standards

𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... COACHES remind team of the standards

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... CAPTAINS remind team of the standards

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... EVERYONE reminds each other of the standards

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

"There are two kinds of pain in life:

1. The Pain of Commitment
2. The Pain of Regret

Which kind of pain do you want to undergo?"

- Curt Cignetti

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban: "Everybody's smart that goes to medical school. But everybody doesn't make it through… It's the same kind of thing with athletes. Some of 'em have great talent but they don't have the right psychological disposition."

Mindset Matters🔥.

[Goose Creek Gator Football @GCGatorFootball]

Don’t be that guy! #GoGators

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

"We're such an instant gratification era ... We're trying to skip the step of adversity and growth ... but we're gonna have to face it.

Sometimes the grass isn't greener on the other side. Sometimes you're just trading one set of problems for another."

~ Eli Drinkwitz 🏈

[Jaime Boswell @JaimeBoswell2]

Champions Know…

[Coach Johnny Croyle @CoachCroyle]

🏴‍☠️

[Dr. Jim Afremow @goldmedalmind]

#TheChampionsMind 🏆

[Dr. Jim Afremow @goldmedalmind]

#TheChampionsMind 🏆 #Commitment #Motivation

[Lane Kiffin @Lane_Kiffin]

You are right here for a reason !! Go help change someone’s life. You got this today. 🔥. #GoIntoDarkCaves

[Lane Kiffin @Lane_Kiffin]

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