The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.
Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
Your either in or out. There's no in between.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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