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Becoming a Hero
Thomas Morstead is a hero in New Orleans today for his onside kick that helped the Saints win the Super Bowl. But it wasn’t always that way. On the day the Saints drafted him, they received criticism for “wasting” a pick on a kicker. And when he got to camp and started [...]
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New York magazine has printed an article called “The Myth of the Gifted Child.” It tells of exams taken by pre-school children in New York. Results can go a long way toward placing a child on a track to high-level schools. There’s just one problem with this: the test could very well be worthless. Even [...]
Coaching Tips
- Friday marked the 18th birthday of “Success Hotline,” a daily motivational phone recording from Dr. Rob Gilbert. In those messages, which number more than 6,000, one stands out for me. Dr. Gilbert tells the story of a strongman who can bend an iron bar. At first the bar won’t move. That’s when things change. The strongman seems to go to another level of effort and intensity, and soon the bar looks more like a horseshoe. Dr. Gilbert offers the moral of the story: when things get difficult, champions don’t get discouraged. They get excited. How about you? When you hit obstacles, what happens to your energy level? Randy Pausch, who gave brilliant lectures before succumbing to pancreatic cancer, said this: “Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people.” No matter what obstacles are in front of you, remember the strongman. It’s not time to get discouraged. It’s time to get excited. Dr. Gilbert’s hotline number is (973) 743-4690. #
- Coach Kevin Reilly offers thoughts on the New York Knicks' draft at knicksofthetrade.com #
- "People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves." -- Tryon Edwards #
- "A free lunch is only found in mousetraps." ~ John Capuzzi #
- "There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks." ~ David Lloyd George #
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Coach Mike Tully has studied peak performance for three decades, first as an international sports writer and then as a championship coach. Coach Tully covered Olympic Games in Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Sarajevo and Seoul, as well as more than 100 consecutive World Series games. Now he takes the insights gained from the greatest athletes in the world and brings them into high school and college gyms.
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