Anna Grace Rigby

Head Softball Coach at George County High School

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"When you become part of a team, you have to give up certain individual rights.
But, when you are a leader on a team, you have to give up even more."

A teammate helps carry the mission.
A leader helps carry the people.

[Softball Portal @SoftballPortal]

For the second year in a row, the Women’s College World Series outdrew the Men’s College World Series in average viewership 1.6M vs 1.5M!🥎🚀

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Lead Yourself First.

- Be on time
- Be positive
- Say please
- Help others
- Pick up trash
- Give your time
- Say thank you
- Open the door
- Serve your teammates

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Parents poisoning team culture through their kids.

Your whispers in the car become their words in the locker room.

Choose wisely.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Competitive character is not “wanting to win.”

Everybody wants to win.

It’s whether your habits get sharper when you’re frustrated. Whether you can take hard coaching without making it personal. Whether you stop negotiating with the standard the second it gets uncomfortable.

Pressure doesn’t build character.
It audits it.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Dan Hurley on the two personas every head coach must master:

The Jockey 🏇, and the Corner Man. 🥊

In practice — you are the jockey. You push. You challenge. You demand more than they think they have. You stretch them past comfort so execution becomes inevitable.

On game night — you become the corner man. You steady. You simplify. You remind them who they are. Confidence replaces correction.

Preparation is where you build them.
Performance is where you believe in them.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Do you lie to yourself?

“When you experience failure you have two options. You can either tell yourself the truth or you can lie to yourself.”

Kara Lawson 🥇

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Coach K shares a universal truth about success, resilience, and growth.

"When you're getting your butt kicked, it's called changing a limit."

"So many parents today don't allow their kids to change limits...They're worried about them failing instead of learning. You learn through the experience of failure and success."

Growth requires discomfort. You have to be willing to look bad before you get better.

The problem isn't failure - it's protecting people from it.

"Failure was never a destination."

You can't grow or be successful without accepting that there will be challenges and adversity. (🎥 Duke Fuqua School of Business )

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban asked his team a simple question:

“Do we have show dogs on the team, or do we have hunting dogs?”

Show dogs want to be seen.
Hunting dogs want to win.

The answer tells you everything about your culture. 🏆

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Rick Pitino was asked what stops people from being great. His answer was one word.

"Ego stops greatness. I call it edging greatness out."

"In a spiritual sense, ego is edging God out. But ego is edging greatness out."

And he made a key distinction:
"I'm not talking about confidence. You have to be a confident person."

"But ego really gets you to where you think you've arrived. You think you know it all. You stop learning. You stop listening."

That's the trap. Confidence keeps you hungry. Ego convinces you that you've already made it.

You lose your hunger and humility.

"Learning and listening are important for great leaders. Great leaders have to listen and they have to continue to learn and surround themselves with people that are better than them."

EGO = Edging Greatness Out

The moment you think you've arrived is the moment you stop growing.

Stay confident. Stay humble. Never stop learning.
(🎥@LewisHowes )

[Rhonda Revelle @RhondaRevelle]

Monday message.
REMEMBER-RECONNECT-CELEBRATE YOUR WHY!!!
Why you-
Love the game
Love your teammates
Love the hard
Love the fans
Love the little things
Love the big things
Love how tough moments can lead to JOY & LIFETIME MEMORIES ❤️❤️

[Karen Weekly @KarenWeekly]

Incredibly proud of this team. They truly focus on what matters (each other) and what they can control (their process in the present). It’s so fulfilling to watch them grow together! #Dominate

[Brandon Shields @bshields0244]

Class 3A Boys

Final: St. Stanislaus 49, Booneville 41.

The Rocks dethrone the king. Rafael Cohen had 16 points, while Alan Gilliam added 12 points.

Rock-a-chaws advance to play for Class 3A state championship on Saturday at 4 p.m.

[Rylee Robinson @ryleerobinsontv]

#1 Tennessee won both of its games yesterday, but Karen Weekly was not 100% pleased with her team's performance.

"We didn't play near to the standard that we want to play to or how we played last weekend down in Clearwater."

The #LadyVols play Mercer tonight at 9:30 ET.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kara Lawson shares why winning habits must be built before the game and why losing habits are so hard to kill.

"We have to stop losing habits. I don't want to develop them. If we develop them, they're habits. They're hard to get out."

"Once they infiltrate this circle, they're hard to kill. We have to stop them before they become habits."

Bad habits don't announce themselves...they creep in slowly.

"I'm going to tell you every time I see it. But then it's incumbent upon you to stop it within yourself."

Coaches can call it out. But only you can fix it.

"You have to practice and play and behave like a winner if you want to win games. You have to do that."

And then she dropped this:
"It is not something you can just decide to be when you wake up. It ain't a Halloween costume. You can't just decide you're going to be a winner that day."

"That's not how it is. You have to be that every single day - in your approach and in your execution."

Winning is a mindset. It's how you choose to show up every day.

Your habits will define your outcomes. Choose them wisely.
(🎥@DukeWBB )

[Coach VJ @VeraJoBustos]

Confidence usually breaks down when athletes start blaming circumstances. The refs. The coach. The system. The matchup.

Or they go the other way and blame themselves in an unproductive way, leading to frustration rather than growth. Neither builds confidence.

Ownership is different.

The three things you fully own, no matter what?

Your preparation.
Your effort.
Your response.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The fastest way to get from a ‘season of adversity’ to a ‘season of prosperity’ is to lock in on what is really true.

—Kara Lawson, head coach @DukeWBB

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"We don't get to control the length of our adversity.
You get to control who you are in it.
The fastest way to get from a season of adversity to a season of prosperity is to ... figure out where you need to work and get better and then it will turn at some point."

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The most urgent person usually wins.

The person who is desperate and needs it the most is the one that normally gets it.

—Kara Lawson, Head Coach @DukeWBB

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“High school coaches need to make that experience a positive one for their players”

(Via @JayBilas 🎥)