Rv Patriots: Motivational Quotes

Friday, February 20
A Few Words
MOTIVATION
In the words of Bob Reade, one of the most successful coaches ever, "You can't make a player do anything, you can only make him want to do it." One way to motivate a player is to provide a tiered system of goals that are achievable and that lead to the quest of further goals. Seemingly unattainable goals seem to lack purpose to players and undermine team unity and collective effort. For example, telling a player with limited skills who has only a slim chance at reaching the next level that he will "make it to the Pros" in an effort to extract greater player output is nothing short of dishonest as someone is bound to inform him of later. Bob Reade reports (p.58) that only 6.2 percent of the more than one million high school football players each year will ever play at the college level. Of these elite, only 2.4 percent will ever play Pro ball. Far, far less than one percent of high school players ever make it to the professional level. Although these numbers seem discouraging, it is still true that football will provide a free or partially free college education for thousands of these players. Thus setting the goal of using football as a tool to gain an affordable education is more honest and attainable.

The quickest way for a coach to win over his players is to "wear his heart on his sleeve", in the words of Coach Geddes Self, Jr. In other words, if a coach really cares for his players he will show it. He will show it by the way that he talks to, and of, them. The team concept starts at the top and trickles down to the water boy.

Wednesday, January 14
Famous Quotes
Its hard to beat a person who never gives up.
-Babe Ruth

Dedication and Commitment is what transfers dreams into realities.
-JT

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker

Nobody ever drowned in sweat
-Unknown

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie Finley

There's no substitute for guts.
-Paul "Bear" Bryant

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital
-Joe Paterno

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
-Ronnie Lott

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
-Unknown

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-Vince Lombardi

The game isn't over till it's over.
-Yogi Berra

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work equals miracles.
-Bob Richards

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
-Seneca

The diffrence between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vince Lombardi

The winners in life think constantly in terms I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
-Dennis Waitley

The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
-Anonymous

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
-Bo Jackson

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it
-Gale Sayers

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-AJ Kitt

We must ethier find a way or make one.
-Hannibal

Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big
-Anonymous

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feel good to show some courage.
-Joe Namath

Winning isn't everything, wanting to is.
-Anonymous

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
-Robert Frost

He who stops being better stops being good.
-Oliver Cromwell

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
-Steve Young

A winner never whines.
-Paul Brown

To be prepared is half the victory.
-Miguel Cervantes

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately,so is losing.
-Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-Vince lombardi

Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare.
-Unknown

There's No Easy Way.
-Allan Wells

If a man does his best, what else is there?
-George S. Patton