Cyrus Haynes

Dighton High School • College and Career Counselor • Athletic Director • Head HS Girls Basketball Coach🏀

[Reid Ouse @reidouse]

I don't love basketball...and it's my entire life.

Players need to hear this message.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

My high school coach had a simple but profound rule:

No matter what happened—win or loss, joy or disappointment—the next day, you get back to work.

We called it the 24-hour rule.

You had 24 hours to feel it all. Then it was time to move forward.

[Coach Cole @CoachColeCC]

‼️ THIS IS A REMINDER TO ALL HS BASKETBALL PLAYERS‼️ Summer is where you separate yourself. Stay disciplined. Get in the gym an hour a day. That’s all you need. You will separate yourself. Look at your screen time… you got an hour to spare.

[Steve Collins @TeachHoopsBBall]

A high school basketball team doesn't win championships in March, it wins them in July, in empty gyms, with no crowds and no hype. The work you do when no one's watching is what shows up under the bright lights.

[GymRat Basketball | Trey Winkler @grbball_1]

Confidence comes from work.

If you only touch a basketball in November, or once a week, your confidence isn’t real. It’s fragile. It can be taken by a coach, a crowd, or a better opponent in seconds.

Real confidence shows up when you’ve put in the work daily. When you’ve already seen it, felt it, and done it over and over.

[Josh Williams @CoachJWilliams]

It's easier to control your body than it is your mind. After a mistake, show confidence by keeping your head held high, and remember to have a what's next mentality. Those footprints you left in the sand behind you will be washed away. Stop looking back. Eyes forward...next 🎯!

[FHSU WBB @FHSUWBB]

Registration is now open for Lady Tiger Basketball Camp! Join us June 14th-17th!

Link below⬇️
https://t.co/GJkJHhMXpe

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

“Speed is the quality you lose the fastest.”

In only 5-7 days if untrained

Tennessee football performance director Derek Owings discusses how important consistent speed training is

Young athletes: sprint consistently, 2-3 times per-week!

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Ben McCollum shares what it feels like to be around first-place people and a first-place culture.

"I went to Northwest Missouri State, and my first practice with Steve Tapmeyer - best coach I've ever been around - I sat there and I'm like, 'This is what first place feels like. This is what a first-place culture feels like. This is what first-place people feel like.'"

That was the wake-up call. He realized what first-place people have:
"They've got an extreme work ethic. They've got an edge to 'em that other people don't - a competitive spirit."

Then he quoted John Thompson:
"You can tame a fool a lot quicker than you can resurrect a corpse...We want guys with a little edge to 'em."

You can coach skills, but you can't coach competitive spirit. You don't want to consistently coach their effort and attitude.

The last thing they look for: Energy givers.
"Over the years, we found that guys that are moody don't make it in our program."

"If you're moody, if you have low energy, if you suck the life out of the building - you don't make it."

Talent isn't enough. Your energy matters. Your attitude matters.

Successful people have a competitive edge, they bring energy, and they look to consistently get better.

They raise the standard through what they do.
(🎥 Watts Happening Podcast)

[Trey Hannam @TJHannam10]

"What's the biggest difference between the athletes who WIN vs the ones that don't?"

Answer: They have a WINNING story running in their head, all the time

- Too good not to share, sending to all my hitters (repeatedly)

[Josh Williams @CoachJWilliams]

Most coaches will never win a state title. As coaches, our more has to be more fulfillment, more enjoyment from those having success around us, more of the journey, more of the relationship, and eliminate the resulting. We must surrender the outcome and empower the experience.

[SALT FORK TRACK AND FIELD @SFStormTrack]

Sprinting NEEDS to happen twice a week all year in every sport or you are getting slower. Facts….

[Brett Flory @coachbrettflory]

Basketball seasons are an absolute marathon, but you run the entire thing at an Olympic sprinter’s pace.

When it’s over one thing that never fails to hit hard is just how drained you are.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Loyal assistant coaches matter more than most people realize.

They support the vision.
They protect the culture.
They tell you the truth.

Great programs aren’t built by one coach.

They’re built by a loyal staff that pulls in the same direction.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

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.

(@IowaHoops)

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

Great reminder for us all.

[Jared Parker @jaredparkertv]

Asked Dawn Staley if she had some advice for the young head coach:

"Competitors know when they need to change their mindsets... You need the majority of your team thinking the same way."

@GamecockWBB @wachfox

[Matt Hoon @Matt_Hoon]

Four things:
- Compete. Be competitive.
- Coachable. Be able to take criticism.
- Good teammate. Be the teammate that you want other teammates to be to you.
- Body language. (This one is big.)

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

JJ Redick shares the mindset shift that changed everything for him.

"You have to let go of outcomes."

"It has to be about the enjoyment and embracing the process."

Outcomes are out of your control - but you can own the process.

You choose the process over outcomes when you focus on doing the work consistently and living the details.

Results don't create discipline.
Discipline creates results.
(🎥Los Angeles Lakers)