Mike Ryckman

Husband, Hockey Fan, Proud Father of # 17 LSSU ACHA DIV 2 MEN’S HOCKEY

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Everyone wants the high.
Nobody wants the low that pays for it.

Coach K:

“The high moments are even higher because you experienced misery. You won’t get that high unless you experience that low.”

You don’t get to skip the line. https://t.co/KIaoFw4p00

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

~ via @readswithravi

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Here's Pete Carroll in his endless wisdom with an AMAZING take on how to handle your haters, overcome adversity and manage self doubt on the journey to your own personal greatness:

"They didn't know how great he was... maybe they don't know how great I can be either."

In one of the lowest moments of his coaching career, Pete Carroll couldn't sleep.

He'd taken a risk becoming the @Patriots head coach knowing the massive expectations would be hard to match and it wasn't trending the right direction in his 3rd season at the helm.

He feared his young career as a head coach may already be over.

At 3 a.m. that sleepless night, he turned on the TV and happened to catch a movie about Babe Ruth...

In the scene, Boston fans relentlessly booed Ruth after he had been traded to the Yankees.

It's in that moment, watching a fanbase annihilate the greatest baseball player of all time, in which Coach Carroll credits gaining a perspective that changed the remainder of his coaching career:

"They didn't know how great he was... maybe they don't know how great I can be either."

He made a promise to himself going forward, regardless of where he coached, that instead of changing who he was to satisfy the critics, he would double down on the standards, beliefs, and culture he believed would help his team succeed.

He went on to win multiple national championships with @uscfb and a Super Bowl with the @Seahawks:

🧭 Most people can't evaluate potential, they can only evaluate evidence. Great leaders often see the destination long before anyone else does. If you constantly adjust your convictions to earn short-term approval, you'll never stay with an idea long enough for it to become extraordinary.

🌱 Build your organization around principles, not popularity. If your standards are rooted in serving others, developing people, and advancing the mission... NOT feeding your ego, don't bend simply because they're misunderstood. The greatest cultures are almost always questioned before they're respected.

⏳ History usually arrives late. The same people who doubt your vision today may celebrate it tomorrow. Your job isn't to convince everyone you're right. Your job is to keep becoming the leader your team needs so that the outcomes become positive and sustainable.

Nobody knows how great you can become except you.

Protect that vision.

Stay true to your standards.

Build it YOUR way.

If your mission is bigger than your ego and your work consistently serves others, time has a remarkable way of revealing what criticism could never recognize.

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

-- via @AllistairMcCaw

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Dan Campbell shares the message he gives his team every single year.

"It's all about the work."

"We don't live off reputation - we live off of work. And that's what's gotten us where we're at."

You have to go out there and earn it every year.

"There's a price to be paid. And so we gotta go pay it again."

"That's the message. And it'll always be the message."

No one is going to hand you success.

Success is not given, it's earned.

You earn it from your attitude, your work ethic, and your daily approach.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Clark Lea shares what the real cost of success is.

"We all as humans want the results now."

"Most people - their tolerance level for suffering, sacrifice, struggle - only goes so far as they're rewarded for it."

"It's challenging when you know you're putting effort in but not seeing the results."

Success requires hard work, patience, and consistency. It means having faith in the process and delayed gratification.

"We've asked for a high level of suffering, sacrifice, and struggle from our players and staff."

"The beauty of it is - we haven't deviated from that ask. That's what we call our team into every day."

The results will come. But only if you stay in it long enough.

Success requires sacrifice and struggle because you can't get where you want without breaking past your current limits.
(🎥 D1 Training)

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

There’s 4 simple ways that I believe that you can reach your goals:

1. Have a plan.
2. Have faith.
3. Work as hard as you can.
4. Never give up.

~ via @CoachJordan82

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

Beat your yesterday's best.
It’s You vs. you today.⁣ 💯

~ via @DrewMaddux

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

@SportPsychTips Great teams set high standards and live to those standards.

Nick Saban said, "If everybody doesn't buy into the same principles and values of the organization and the same high standard you're never going to be successful."

It means commitment and accountability.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

@WinningCoaches @thewinningdiff1 The standard is the standard.

You either live it today, or you don’t.

[Adam Buschbacher @AdamBuschbacher]

Read This Slowly. It’ll Change How You See Your Life:

1. If there’s food in your fridge, clothes on your body, a roof above, and a bed to sleep in, you’re richer than 75% of the world.

2. If you have some money and the freedom to move, you’re already in the top 18%.

3. If your body is healthy today, you’re luckier than a million people who won’t survive this week.

4. If you can read this, see this, and understand this, you’re more fortunate than 3 billion people who can’t.

5. Pause. Breathe. Be thankful. You’re already living someone else’s prayer.

The life you complain about is the life someone else is praying for right now.

[Michael Hill II @mikehillii]

Such a great message.

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

~ via @JimShapiro

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Most teams want the trophy. But what does the trophy cost?

Brent Venables nailed it. 🔥

Respect the jersey.
Respect the routine.
Respect the process.

Nobody wins alone.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

When everyone is talented, talent means nothing. 🔥

Inky Johnson nailed it.

At the highest level, the separator isn't skill. It's leadership. Culture. Commitment. Mindset.

What's your team's separator? 👇

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

Champion Minded 🏆 from @AllistairMcCaw

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

Beat your yesterday's best.
It’s You vs. you today.⁣ 💯

~ via @DrewMaddux

[Jaime Boswell @JaimeBoswell2]

Champions Know…

[Jaime Boswell @JaimeBoswell2]

Champions Know…