"Disappointed is okay, not defeated.
Make sure that you are crying with the understanding that it is not over despair.
It's just disappointment, but knowing that you did everything you could."
Effort doesn't guarantee success, but it does guarantee the opportunity to succeed.
The lie sports culture keeps telling:
You can’t compete against your opponent and still have compassion for them.
You can be the hardest worker,
the fiercest competitor,
the one nobody wants to line up against
and still be humble, respectful,
and compassionate.
🎥@notsasiagain/TT
"Bad habits have a cost.
Good habits have a price.
Either way you have to pay.
The meaningful things- we pay for before.
The foolish things- we pay for after."
Winners pay upfront (sacrifice, effort, discipline).
Everyone else pays later (regret).
That’s the difference.
Coaches can set the standard.
But players decide if it lives or dies.
The best players don’t just do it right.
They make sure everybody else does too.
When players start leading like coaches, winning stops being a hope and starts becoming a habit.
“Anybody that's gonna push you loves you more than anybody that's gonna let you stay the same."
"When we coach you, when we love you up…that's not me personally attacking you. That's trying to help our team be better. That's trying to help you be better.”
🎥@HornetsReddit
"If you wanna earn toughness, you have to learn to embrace the hard.
We call it 'The Edge' - when your talent runs out and you are forced to develop a new level of discipline, toughness, and skill."
Earn the right to be more than talented.
Gifted is common.
Gritty is rare.
"You can have both.
You can compete at the highest levels...and be committed to winning for the sake of the group with total commitment AND you can love each other well, commit to growth first, and live in a place of gratitude and service.
You can do both at the same time."
“All year we have been saying the talent is our floor but our character will determine our ceiling.
And I am just so confident in their character, and that’s what determined how they played today.”
Talent makes you comparable.
Character makes you unforgettable.
“Please don’t ever judge me for wins and losses that’s not who I am as a coach.
Relationships- you want it for them.”
Championships change careers.
Relationships change lives.
Athletes. Coaches.
Don’t just chase wins. Change people.
That’s the real legacy.
🎥@glenn_kinley
Great coaches are truth tellers.
“When you experience failure you have two options. You can either tell yourself the truth or you can lie to yourself.”
Most people avoid the truth.
Great teams embrace it.
The best athletes & leaders have unshakable toughness. They show up and push through all adversity. They’re at their best when their best is needed.
They show up to make those around them better, while striving to get 1% better themselves.
They carry their head high with their chest out no matter what is going on around them.
Show up. Fight through comfort and adversity. Be at your best when your best is needed. Lift those up around you. Get 1% better today.
Wins fade. Relationships don’t.
Brad Underwood gets it. 🔥
“25 years from now, I want them to pick up the phone and call me because they need me.”
Coach accordingly.
“Do the things that we need to to do in practice because we know that if you do, it’s a no brainer it’s going to happen in a game,” Dawn Staley
Standards define it.
Habits deliver it.
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.
Tonight’s banquet wrapped up the 25-26 season, thanks to everyone involved! Thank you seniors for all you’ve contributed to our team, school and community!
Go Bulldogs!
“Comparison is the thief of joy. Thats how you get in trouble, you know saying someone’s better than this player, not better than that player,” Kara Lawson
Comparison measures people. Standards measure progress.
If you focus on others, you lose sight of your identity.
“It’s in your body language. It’s how you talk to one another. It’s how you compete in practice. Those standards become our baseline. When you have those standards, you understand the byproduct will be winning, but all those things have to show up before the scoreboard,” @MollyMiller33
Tough one tonight, but our kids, our coaches and our community are Champions. Thanks you seniors, thank you parents and thank you OFCS, I’m beyond blessed to be a part of this!
Go Bulldogs!!!