Dave Weinberg

Mental Performance Coach. Providing 1:1 & team coaching to equip & help athletes unleash their potential. Ranger Veteran (1/75) Romans 8:28

[Merril Hoge @merrilhoge]

"I want it more than they do.”

That mindset changed the way I approached football, and eventually, it became something much bigger than football.

Because wanting it more isn’t about Sunday at 1:00 when 65,000 people are watching.

It’s about Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday when nobody is watching.

It’s choosing to be relentlessly committed when it’s hard, inconvenient, or uncomfortable.
Do that long enough and it becomes a habit. Then it becomes a tool you can carry into every part of your life — your career, your relationships, your health, your goals.

Wanting it more can be the difference between where you are and where you want to be.

So ask yourself: How badly do you want it? And what are you willing to do when nobody is watching?

Find A Way. Every Day.

[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

E + R = O
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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

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[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

If you want to play college or Major League Baseball one day, get comfortable being uncomfortable NOW.

Because the road there isn't comfortable.

Facing a pitcher throwing harder than you're used to?

Uncomfortable.

A coach getting on you?

Uncomfortable.

Moving up a level and suddenly you're not the best player anymore?

Uncomfortable.

You're up with the game on the line?

Uncomfortable

Going 0-for-4?

Uncomfortable.

Sitting on the bench when you think you should be playing?

Uncomfortable.

That's the game.

And it doesn't suddenly get easier when you reach college or professional baseball.

The pitchers get better.
The competition gets better.
The expectations get higher.
The pressure gets bigger.

So stop trying to make baseball comfortable.

Learn how to perform when you're uncomfortable.
Learn how to compete when you're uncomfortable.
Learn how to stay confident when you're uncomfortable.

Because if you want to play at the highest levels...

you can't only be good when you're comfortable.

Thank you for reading,
- Jermaine Curtis

[David Pollack @davidpollack47]

This is for everyone!!! Walk in your God given calling. Your calling won’t look the same as others bc it ain’t there calling. So good!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, forty people who had never met decided to die on purpose so that strangers in Washington would not have to.

United 93 should have left Newark at 8:00 a.m. It sat on the taxiway in a line of airplanes and did not get airborne until 8:42. Forty two minutes late. That delay handed the people in that cabin the one thing nobody else in the sky that morning was given. Time, and the truth.

When four hijackers took the cockpit at 9:28, both towers were already burning. The passengers picked up the seatback airphones and called home, and their families told them what was happening in New York.

So they knew. That is what separates Flight 93 from everything else that happened that day. Every other victim died without warning. These forty had roughly half an hour to sit with the knowledge that they were already dead, that the only question left was where the airplane would land and how many people it would take with it.

Think about who they were.

Captain Jason Dahl was flying that trip because he had swapped for it, so he could get home for his fifth wedding anniversary. His first officer was LeRoy Homer Jr., Air Force Academy class of 1987, a C-141 pilot who had flown in the Gulf War and into Somalia, a major in the Reserve, with a wife and a ten month old daughter at home. Both men fought for that cockpit and neither of them gave it up willingly.

Todd Beamer's wife Lisa was pregnant with their third child. Jeremy Glick's daughter was twelve weeks old. Tom Burnett had three little girls. Lauren Grandcolas was pregnant and flying home from her grandmother's funeral. Deora Bodley was twenty. CeeCee Lyles was a flight attendant who had been a police detective in Florida and had four sons. Sandy Bradshaw had two small children waiting in North Carolina.

Not one of them had a reason to be brave. Every single one of them had a reason to sit still and hope.

Listen to what they said instead.

Tom Burnett told his wife Deena, don't worry, we're going to do something.

Sandy Bradshaw called her husband from the galley and told him she was filling coffee pots with boiling water. Then she said she had to go and hung up on him.

Honor Elizabeth Wainio told her stepmother, I have to go, they're breaking into the cockpit, I love you.

Todd Beamer stayed on the line with a phone operator named Lisa Jefferson for thirteen minutes, gave her his home number, asked her to tell his wife he loved her, and asked her to say the Lord's Prayer with him. Then she heard him set the phone down and say to the men beside him, are you ready, okay, let's roll.

They took a vote first. On a hijacked airliner, with a man at the front claiming to have a bomb, they held a vote, because they were not going to force anyone else to die for their decision.

At 9:57 they came up the aisle.

The recorder caught six minutes of it. A galley cart driven into the cockpit door. Men shouting. The hijacker at the controls throwing the airplane into rolls and dives trying to knock them off their feet, and failing, because they kept coming. At 10:00 he asks the man beside him whether to finish it. Twenty five seconds later you can hear an American voice screaming, in the cockpit, if we don't we'll die. At 10:02 the hijackers are yelling at each other to put it down.

They put it down. At 10:03 a.m., in an empty field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 130 miles and twenty minutes short of the United States Capitol, where Congress was still inside the building.

The men who hijacked that plane were willing to die for their cause. So were the passengers. The difference is that the hijackers wanted to take thousands of people with them, and the passengers of Flight 93 made sure the only people who died were themselves.

Forty of them. Salesmen, flight attendants, a college student, a retired ironworker, a judo champion, two pilots fighting to the last second for a control yoke. No weapons, no training, no orders, no chance.

They are the only Americans on September 11, 2001 who saw it coming, understood exactly what it would cost them, and walked into it anyway.

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

“ Those chasing comfort never make it out of the valley of death. Only those chasing a calling live to see the other side. The valley is part of every meaningful endeavor. And success often emerges just beyond the point where most would give up.” —pg. 52 from the book, “Bring Your Own Pencil” by Dan Casey & Griffin Brand

This is a MUST READ book.

[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

Early baseball specialization isn’t the only path.

In a study of nearly 97,000 baseball players, those who ran track in high school performed better professionally than comparable baseball-only athletes.

Strong connection—not proof track caused it.

Study summary:
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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

Alex Lodise was hitting .179 and pressing—trying too hard to produce.

He recognized performance anxiety, became patient and learned to compete one pitch at a time. He became an important part of FSU’s 2024 Omaha run.

Don’t chase results. Win this pitch.

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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

Larry Gelwix built the winningest program in American high school sports history — 419-10,
20 national titles, 36 years — coaching a sport that wasn’t even sanctioned in his state, and he volunteered to start the program in 1976 with 6 kids.

His 5 Championship Strategies for Sustainable Success:

1.Horizontal Leadership — no line between coach and player, only different responsibilities.

2.Don’t Play With Snakes — you already know right from wrong in the moment. Discipline is refusing to test it.

3.Attitude & Effort Are Everything — shifting behavior, not just mindset, is the real work.

4.Expect to W.I.N. — What’s Important Now. Stay locked into the present play.

5.Focus on the Final Score — “The most important question is ‘who do I want to be?’ — and the who is the final score.”

[Jared Kubin @JaredKubin]

On repeat for me lately

[Coach Beede @CoachBeede]

Alex Madera played four years of Division III baseball at Arcadia. All-American, .432 across four seasons. Then, in a graduate year at North Carolina, where he started all 61 games at shortstop and led the team in hitting. He signed with the Cubs organization this spring. Division III is not where baseball goes to end. For some players, it is where it gets built.

[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

When Preparation + Patience Meets Opportunity

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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

Mental toughness looks different in every athlete. Everyone is an N of 1.

Elite swimmers described 3 expressions:

• Persist toward goals
• Learn from mistakes and coaching
• Stay composed under pressure

Every athlete is an N of 1. Train what THAT athlete needs.

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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

Start by making your bed…

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[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

Oklahoma did not suddenly develop discipline when it reached the College World Series.

Coach Skip Johnson’s program emphasized ordinary daily standards—including making the bed correctly. That habit didn’t win the national championship, but it represented something much larger:

Do the small things correctly.
Keep your commitments.
Build evidence that you can trust yourself.

When Oklahoma encountered a late-season slump, the players did not need to invent mental toughness. They relied on standards that had already been practiced.

Pressure doesn’t create your standards.

It reveals them.

What is one small standard you will own every day—even when nobody is watching?

Separation Is in Your Preparation.

Source: Associated Press, June 23, 2026

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Elite Mindset Coaching

#MentalToughness #CollegeBaseball #DailyDiscipline #ChampionshipHabits #AthleteDevelopment #SuaSpontePerformance

[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

In 1988, LSU was three outs away from moving closer to a national championship.

Instead, Stanford hit a walk-off grand slam in extra innings off freshman pitcher Ben McDonald.

Season over.

Years later, McDonald remembered what Coach Skip Bertman told him:

“Listen, it sucks. Now the question is, how are you going to respond to it?”

That question matters.

Not:

Why did this happen to me?

Not:

How long am I going to feel sorry for myself?

But:

How am I going to respond?

McDonald’s response?

In 1989, he won the Golden Spikes Award, helped LSU return to the College World Series, and became the #1 overall pick in the MLB Draft.

Adversity is coming for every athlete.

A bad game.
A mistake in a big moment.
Getting benched.
Losing your starting job.
An injury.
A heartbreaking loss.

You may not control what happened.

You absolutely control what happens next.

How will you respond to adversity?

What will you do to overcome what happened to you as a player?

Your response may become a bigger part of your story than the adversity itself.

#MentalToughness #GrowthMindset #Baseball #AthleteDevelopment #Performance

[Dave Weinberg @MindsetRanger]

My mentor Brian Cain taught me the “Compared To What” perspective for athletes. Here is a significant “Compared To What” story! Rooting for this young man to dominate at the Patriot Games!

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