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The Winning Difference
@thewinningdiff1
Better athletes. Better people.
Strive for excellence not just victory.
Joined February 2021
- “I’m always going to make sure that our players are respectful. I’m always going to make sure that they know the history of the game. I’m going to make sure that they are always respectful to our opponents. When you do it that way, in return you have success,” Dawn Staley
00:00 - "All of us are addicted to tomorrow...but making it happen today is how you improve.” Nick Saban
00:00 - "We talk about the will to win. Let's eliminate the will to win and think about the will to prepare to win. Because the preparation is much more important. Everyone wants to win, but not everybody wants to prepare to win." - Bob Knight
00:00 - "Run hard when it gets hard to run. Everything starts with discipline. Practice until you can’t get it wrong - not just until you get it right. If you don’t respect it enough to do it right-when it’s the right way to do it, how can you be trusted in a game?" - Nick Saban
00:00 - "Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups. But winners assemble as a team." -Parcells We are not a team because we wear the same uniform. We are a team because we respect, sacrifice, trust, and care for one another.
00:00 - “Don’t be a blame guy. That’s the first sign of loser mentality when you blame someone else for a mistake,” Kirby Smart A winners response to adversity inspires others to seek greatness.
00:00 - "It's feeling vs. choice. Are you going to do what you feel like doing or are you going to choose to do the things you need to do to accomplish the goals that you have?" Average players make an effort when they 'feel like it.' Great players choose to make a relentless effort.
00:00 - As adults, we need to stop 'stealing the struggle' from our kids. When we 'steal the struggle', we steal their opportunity for growth & learning. We need to prepare them for the path (teach resilience, reflection, and self-respect), but we can't prepare the path for them.
00:00 - “Guys get to college and it’s way harder than they think unless your Michael Jordan or Cooper Flagg. 99.9% it’s harder than they think. You either make excuses, quit, transfer, blame others or you get to work and that’s what life’s about,” Mick Cronin
00:00 - “The amount of points you score doesn’t determine whether you are playing good or bad. Your point total is never an indicator of how you play. It’s how hard you work and how good of a teammate you are,” Caitlin Clark A true difference maker on and off the court.
00:00 - "It's called changing a limit. Parents today don't allow their kids to change their limits. They're worried about them failing instead of learning. But you learn through the experience of failure & success" Don't steal their struggle. Productive struggle produces positive results
00:00 - “We are not here because of talent or ability. We are here because of 4 a.m. We are here because of two-a-days or five-a-days. We are here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. Never satisfied. Never finished. Rest at the end not at the middle." -Kobe
00:00 - “You can overcome anything with God on your side, with hard work on your side. With the belief, the faith. the perseverance and the resilience. It’s all about how you overcome adversity in life. Just sticking together as one and not letting anything break us,” Paige Bueckers
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