Someone once said, “Never give advice. A wise person doesn’t need it, and a fool won’t take it.”
Nevertheless, the current issue of Fortune offers a cover article titled “The Best Advice I Ever Got.”
Featured are Bill Gates, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods, among many others. Several of the profiles can apply to coaches and athletes, but none more than the one about Jim Rogers, an investor and commodities guru.
“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.” ~ Bobby Jones If you could have a front-row seat for any sports event in the world, what would it be? Perhaps on a hair-raising stretch of a downhill ski race? Or at a World Cup soccer match? […]
“Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren’t celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.” ~ Don Moomaw Over the weekend I had the chance to watch a women’s lacrosse […]
“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” — Unknown Talk about March Madness. And February Madness. And January Madness. Paul Ridley landed on the Caribbean island of Antigua yesterday, completing three months spent crossing the Atlantic Ocean. He rowed it. Alone. Ridley undertook the voyage as […]
“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.” — Confucius The difference between success and failure comes down to just a few moments in a person’s life. Those moments are the ones that come immediately after a failure of some kind. The responses — called mistake responses — add up to your destiny. […]
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” — Peter Marshall So many people say they can’t. The truth is that they just won’t. The following is a true story. Ed Agresta is a motivational speaker in New Jersey, and one day he was invited to speak to a sports psychology class at […]