Scottie Pippen made a valid point.🔥
“My problem is more so with LeBron. If you are the greatest player, if people are saying you are the greatest player, or if people are saying Michael Jordan is the greatest player, why do you need to say it? Michael Jordan has never ever said he’s the greatest player to ever play the game. Why? He’s respected all the other players before him. So, for LeBron to say that, he’s sort of pulling himself out of it because you can’t say you’re the greatest player. You have to allow your peers and the world to say that.”
— Source: ESPN (The Jump)
All of us NBA fans 100% agree with Scottie Pippen's opinion.
Skip Johnson has talked a lot about "the dugout" throughout Oklahoma's run, the other guys who haven't seen the field as much as they did during the regular season still supporting their teammates
I asked Skip about that today:
"It's uncommon at every level. I mean, from Little League all the way up. When their kid's not playing, all they hear is the negative energy. These guys really have been selfless."
"Man, if you can teach those young men to be selfless in a selfish world, is really big to me. It's really big to me. When nobody cares who gets the credit, you can do amazing things. It's pretty amazing."
#Sooners:
Up 1-0 in best of three @CWSOmaha Skip Johnson (@CoachJohnsonOU) delivers an uncommon message for @OU_Baseball and for every leader striving to build an uncommon culture:
🙌 Selflessness is one of the rarest competitive advantages in any organization because it becomes increasingly uncommon at every level. The higher the stakes, the more people protect their status, spotlight, and self-interest. Teams that consistently choose "we" over "me" create separation that talent alone can't overcome.
❓ One of the most powerful questions a team can ask is: "What could we accomplish if nobody cared who got the credit?" Ego divides energy. Shared ownership multiplies it. When recognition becomes secondary to the mission, trust grows, silos disappear, and extraordinary results become possible.
✈️ Your trajectory is often determined by the energy you tolerate. Negative people drain focus, magnify problems, and create friction that slows progress. Protect your environment relentlessly. Removing toxic energy creates the space for growth, momentum, and your best work to emerge in sports and in life.
Selflessness is the ultimate force multiplier: when everyone invests in the mission instead of their own spotlight, ordinary groups become uncommon teams. 🔦 #MCWS #RoadToOmaha
Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.
Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥
You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.
Hard is the lesson.
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Seattle Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald - What Players Want
- "Players want to be coached. They want a connection. They want a coach that trusts/believes in them & to teach them the stuff that works. They want to be challenged but you have to build a relationship first to challenge guys the right way."
West Virginia is going to its 1st College World Series ever. It’s easy to get romantic about these guys. Best player is a Pittsburgher. Blue collar kids. They can win the national championship. Good luck in Omaha!
Fans don’t understand how Dr. J. Did something we’d never seen in the air every time he took the court.
Also, the ultimate posterization of poor Bill Walton in this clip lol.
Bill Parcells said, "Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups."
Complaining is not a solution, IT'S A DISTRACTION!
It distracts you from action, gratitude, and positivity.
(@30for30)
“I think the intangible of teams getting this far is the camaraderie, the tightness of it. It’s what draws me into this game. Just love being in the game to watch a team be a team. Not just on the ice, more importantly off the ice before they get there,” John Tortorella
Bill Walsh built one of the greatest football dynasties ever.
• He won 3 Super Bowls in 10 years.
• He had a 71% winning percentage in the playoffs.
• He built a culture and dynasty that lasted beyond him.
Here are 6 of Bill Walsh's Culture Guidelines that any team can use:
Tom Coughlin said, "You never want an opponent to see you in anything, but strength."
"You don't want bad language. You don't want that as a stamp of who you are."
Your body language speaks before you do.
Your presence, your tone, your energy - everything speaks.
@SportPsychTips Julius Peppers said, "Whatever it is that you do, do it with respect, integrity, passion, resilience, dedication, and gratitude. That alone will make you a HOF person."
Your character is what you do.
It's your decisions and your actions.
“Why would you ever give less than your best after you lose and don’t get a result that you want? You actually should never do that. You want to know why? You’ll stay a loser,” Kara Lawson
Winners and losers have a choice when it comes to winning.
@readswithravi Jon Gruden said, "You can lead the league in effort because it takes no talent."
"It's just a decision that you make."
It means show up, do the work, and earn it every day.
• It means hard work.
• It means discipline.
• It means commitment.