If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life. – Vince Lombardi
When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. – Yogi Berra
One major pro of being a coach is all the coaching gear you accumulate over the years. One major con of being a coach is you have so much coaching gear you always look like you’re going to practice. I don’t know how to dress like a normal person anymore. Help.
It's not about talent, it's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not going to give us anything, so you've got to go out there and you've got to take it. – Don Haskins
Bill Belichick on Constructive Criticism
“I don’t know how you can improve
unless you accept constructive
criticism. I don’t know how you can
get any better.”
As a kid I hated it.
Too much running, not enough scoring 😂
Now as an adult & fan, I love it.
The intricacies of the games within a game, like one big flowing chess match. And the crazy passionate fans with the songs & scarves.
(Still too much running for me to play tho 😂)
Confront the negativity. Deal with the challenges. Have the difficult conversations as a team. Talk about it at the cultural level. We have to stay positive so we can do our best work.
If you are just a group of individuals on a team you will give up when things get difficult. But if you are a real team that is connected and committed you will continue to fight for each other.
As a principal, one of my goals was for our staff to understand that I believed their families were the most important thing in the world to them.
Educators love their job, but most have that job to support their family & they shouldn’t feel guilty when they take care of ‘em.
Everyone’s coming back from something. An injury, sickness, loss, failure. Here’s how to COME BACK stronger!
1. Learn from the past.
2. Don’t be bitter. Get better.
3. Create a vision for your future
4. Tune-out distractions-negativity.
5. Believe the best is yet to come!