INSECURE COACHES create INSECURE PLAYERS.
INSECURE PLAYERS create DISCONNECTED TEAMS.
DISCONNECTED TEAMS will consistently UNDERPERFORM and FALL BEHIND.
The X-Factor?
A CULTURE where EVERYONE can feel SECURE and SIGNIFICANT about who they are both on & off the court!
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”
To EVERY PLAYERS traveling across the 🇺🇸 to play in these AAU tournaments PLEASE understand that these are BUSINESS TRIPS, NOT VACATIONS. No we are not going to the mall. No we are not going swimming. Nobody cares about you having fun. You are there to get SCHOLARSHIPS.
Ten things mentally tough athletes don’t do in games:
1. Make excuses
2. Complain
3. Give up
4. Get distracted
5. Lose their temper
6. Panic
7. Dwell on mistakes
8. Get complacent
9. Stay in their comfort zone
10. Play selfishly
LeBron James wondered why he has not been asked about the 1957 photo of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that recently surfaced, after the media were quick to question him about Kyrie Irving.
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Michael Jordan was once asked what he thought his best skill was.
He didn’t say it was his ability to dunk from the free throw line or his scoring ability.
His answer: “I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”
The easier you are to lead, the further you’ll go.
Hoops. Fireworks. Fun. 🎇
The Coyote Community is invited to kick-off Dakota Days and the 2022-23 🏀 season in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center on Monday, October 17. 🔗 https://t.co/HOI4VNPJAa