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The Personal Attributes of Leaders

Posted: September 11, 2012 in Best stuff, Football, Inpirational quotes, Motivation
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With all my teams, I need a leader.  How are they going to find it, and prove it?  Read these Attributes of being a leader, and see where or what they need to work on.  Most of all the Coach must have these!!

Leadership is a complex composite of commendable personal attributes and ways of acting that result in employees and student-athletes believing in the leader’s judgment and direction and wanting to execute or fulfill the leader’s assignments and expectations.  Is there such a thing as a person being “a natural” leader, like a natural athlete or a gifted artist or musician whose talent appears to come easily?  To an extent, the answer is yes.  Leadership qualities come more easily to some rather than others.  However, all of the following personal attributes of a good leader can be developed by intent.

Personal Attributes of Leaders

Skilled Communicator.  Able to clearly explain tasks and inspire others with varying backgrounds and perspectives.

Confidence.  Poise, clear thinking under pressure, conviction in the course being set, and decisiveness are characteristics that earn the respect and loyalty of others.

Fairness.  Treats people fairly, makes decisions consistent with clearly expressed standards of right and wrong.  When handling disputes, the leader’s resolution engenders a feeling of justice, equal treatment and evenhandedness.

Generosity.  A ‘giver’ rather than ‘taker’;  a giver of time, knowledge and caring.

Honesty.  Truthful and openly self-critical with regard to acknowledging own errors.

Humility.  Modest about his or her abilities and always respectful of others.

Mastery.  Makes decisions and demonstrates a high personal commitment to acquisition of knowledge, skill mastery and thoughtful action.

Passion.  Performs work and play and approaches every task with passion and enthusiasm.

Optimism.   Believes that everyone has something important to contribute to the success of the organization;  creates an environment that is positive, hopeful and buoyant – a place of working, playing and human interaction that employees and student-athletes enjoy and value.

Selflessness.  Puts the needs, interests and wishes of others before his or her own self interest.  When the leader asks someone to do something, that person knows that what is being asked is for the larger good or good of another.

Trustworthy.  Builds trust and confidence by acting in team member’s best interest and  not revealing confidential information.

All of these are what I look for in an athlete or a teammate.  We all have it in u, it’s just knowing what it takes sometime to let it shine.  When I coach, I know right away who are the leaders.  The difficult part is finding those that have it, and making sure they can use it!  Everyone can be a leader!!

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Mike Ditka Quotes

Posted: August 27, 2012 in Football, Inpirational quotes, Motivation
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-The Man has some of the best quotes ever, and I’ve heard him speak at a coaching convention which was amazing.  He knows all sports, and can intimidate people with just his presence.  He’s the man!

If God had wanted man to play soccer, He wouldn’t have given us arms. – Mike Ditka

What’s the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter?  In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. – Mike Ditka

You’re never a loser until you quit trying. – Mike Ditka

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy. – Mike Ditka

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why ‘would you want to do that?’  I say, well there’s a few people I haven’t made mad yet, I want to get them. – Mike Ditka

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let’s face it. – Mike Ditka

Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. – Mike Ditka

We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he’s strange and I’m wonderful. – Mike Ditka

Those who live in the past are cowards and losers – Mike Ditka

I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. – Mike Ditka

Ways To Make Kids Quit Sports

Posted: August 26, 2012 in Motivation
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My Blog is all about how to motivate your Athletes on how to play, and enjoy their sports.  So I thought I would show this article on what not to do.

This is great for parents who may want their child to play sports, but are going about it the wrong way……Take notes and see if you may fit in any of these ways that may turn your child or athlete away from sports.  This is the other side of what I truly believe in!

Research shows that approximately 70 percent of all kids who participate in youth sports will drop out by the age of 13. Here are my top 10 ways that parents and coaches contribute to this statistic:

1. Persuade your child to play only one sport. Specialization in youth sports has become very popular. Year-round club sports with year-round commitment and financial obligations have caught the eyes of many parents. The pressure to be good, and the time spent with practice and games, creates burnout. Burnout ultimately leads to quitting.

2. Yell a lot. Get on the referees for every bad call. Get upset with your child’s coach and complain a lot about playing time. Embarrassing your kids in public will help them to become one of the 70 percent.

3. Become all-consumed. Spend hours on the phone plotting out your child’s next few years. Find new teams for them to play on if things don’t go just your way. Plan out their weekends for them, including extra practice time.

4. Become the self-appointed, personal statistician. Success to some parents means numbers on a stat sheet. Performance-based approval is too much pressure for kids. It is so important that our kids are affirmed by their efforts and character. False expectations and previous statistics can become guidelines that somehow say failure if comparable results are not produced.

5. Place family time as a second priority. No more hanging out in the back yard playing silly nonsense games. You have drills to work on. And, remember your percentages were down last game, so we have some work to do. Playing Marco Polo in the pool can wait.

6. Talk about the importance of a college scholarship on a daily basis. Kids are perceptive and pick up on your motives. If you want to build up pressure for a long time, this one will do it.

7. Make sure it’s all about winning. If you lose sight of the real important things to be learned, then life skills get overshadowed by misplaced values. Youth sports are a ready-made platform for learning commitment, teamwork, hard work, sportsmanship, and how to win and lose. These are the things that the kids take with them for the rest of their lives. Not many adults can even remember what place their third-grade baseball team finished in. It’s the heart issues and role modeling that stick around forever.

8. Take all the fun out of it. Studies show that kids play sports to have fun. One of the most simple but profound things a child said to me during an interview was that she played sports because it was supposed to be fun, and if it wasn’t fun, then she asks herself why she would even play.

9. Use punishment to try to correct a mistake. I see too many coaches who use push-ups as a corrective tool for missing free throws. Practicing more free throws is the answer. Instead of running laps for striking out, how about spending that time with more batting practice?

10. Make practice long and boring. Being creative is a valuable ingredient. Do drills in a way that the kids are all moving and having a good time. Make sure there are always scrimmages and game time.

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.”

~Satchel Paige~

Best Sport Movie Quotes of all time

Posted: July 25, 2012 in Best stuff, Uncategorized
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These are the some of the absolute best sports movie quotes of all time: ADD SOME IF YOU CAN COME UP WITH A FEW.  Some just make me Laugh, and others are inspiration

1. “Yo, Adrian!” Rocky
2. “You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. Let’s face it. It was you, Charley.” On The Waterfront
3. “Show me the money!” Jerry Maguire
4. “Juuuust a bit outside!” Major League
5. “I’m out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.” Airplane!
6. “Sweep the leg.” The Karate Kid
7. “There’s no crying in baseball!” A League of Their Own
8. “You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!” Bull Durham
9. “Oh, there they go. There they go. Every time I start talkin’ ’bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That’s their one, that’s their one. Rocky Marciano! Rocky Marciano!” Coming to America
10. “You’re gonna eat lightning, and you’re gonna crap thunder!” Rocky
11. “If you build it, he will come.” Field of Dreams
12. “Noonan!” Caddyshack
13. “Pick me out a winner, Bobby.” The Natural
14. “There’s one thing I want you to do for me. Win. Win!” Rocky II
15. “Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.” The Hustler
16. “Well, Nuke’s scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man’s here. We need a live … is it a live rooster? We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose’s glove, and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.” Bull Durham
17. “Mike Eruzione! Winthrop, Massachusetts! I play for the United States of America!” Miracle
18. “Jocks only think about sports. Nerds only think about sex.” Revenge of the Nerds
19. “I’m gonna make Gretzky’s head bleed for SuperFan99 over here.” Swingers
20. “What about Brett Fav-ruh?” There’s Something About Mary
21. “Which brings me to my second point, kids. Don’t do crack.” The Waterboy
22. “Get him a body bag, yeaaahhh!” The Karate Kid
23. “There will be an additional springboard installed for Melon’s dive, the Triple Lindy!” Back to School
24. “I guess what I’m trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.” Rocky IV
25. “… Whose bright strips and broad stars, in the perilous night. O’er the ramparts we watched, as the da da da da da da. And the rocket’s red glare, lots of bombs in the air …” The Naked Gun
26. “If he had held the ball laces out like he’s supposed to, Ray would never have missed that kick. Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell!” Ace Ventura
27. “I enjoy watching football in the afternoon. One of the things I love about this country. Baseball, too. I love baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919.” The Godfather Part II
28. “The price is wrong, bitch!” Happy Gilmore
29. “I just slid my ticket across the table and I said, ‘Sorry, guys, I gotta see about a girl.’ ” Good Will Hunting
30. “So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know?’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.” Caddyshack
31. “Sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper.” Knute Rockne, All-American
32. “Put it in the face!” Coming to America
33. “Hey, Yankees, you can take your apology and your trophy and shove ‘em straight up your ass!” The Bad News Bears
34. “Billy, listen to me. White men can’t jump.” White Men Can’t Jump
35. “Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down, because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn’t one more thing that you could’ve done. Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart? If you can do that, gentlemen, then you’re perfect.” Friday Night Lights
36. “Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you’re not good at them.” Tin Cup
37. “U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi! You ugly! You ugly! Yo momma said you ugly!” Wildcats
38. “I don’t hate Balboa. I pity the fool.” Rocky III
39. “You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’ and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you’re gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody but yourself.” Rudy
40. “In case you haven’t noticed — and, judging by the attendance, you haven’t — the Indians have managed to win a few here and there and are threatening to climb out of the cellar.” Major League
41. “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” The Pride of the Yankees
42. “If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says. At the end of the game, in my book, we’re gonna be winners.”
43. “You never played for Charlie Comiskey.” Eight Men Out
44. “People always say to me, ‘When you get to the NBA, don’t forget about me.’ Well, I should’ve said back, ‘If I don’t make it to the NBA, don’t you forget about me.’ ” Hoop Dreams
45. “Uh, Lord, hallowed be thy name. May our feet be swift; may our bats be mighty; may our balls be plentiful. Lord, I’d just like to thank you for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is — she kept calling your name. And God, these are good girls, and they work hard. Just help them see it all the way through. OK, that’s it.” A League of Their Own
46. [Ed Rooney learns the score of the baseball game is nothin'-nothin'.] “Who’s winning?” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
47. “I was crippled for the rest of my life. I got better. He made me better. Hell, you made me better.” Seabiscuit
48. “Hey, unless you’re gonna kiss me, get your hands off my ass.” Any Given Sunday
49. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” Chariots of Fire
50. “I sure miss playing basketball. I got depressed as hell when my athlete’s foot and jock itch went away.” Breaking Away
.51 “I’ll make it.” Hoosiers

Greatest Olympic Moments

Posted: July 24, 2012 in Best stuff, Inspirational quotes, Motivation, Uncategorized
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After watching a special on TV this weekend on the top moments in Olympic history it was no surprise #1 went to Kerri Strug, the gymnast.  One part of me has soft spot for her, because I knew here as a childhood friend.  The other was what an amazing performance, and courage she had to win with all the pressure on her.  Sure that’s every Olympic story, but she did it hurt and no one thought she could pull it off!  I’m so glad to see this as one of the top moments in Olympic History, it gave me chills to watch, and tears after.  Let’s GO USA!!

Kerri Strug Shrugs Off Injury

Strug defined resilience at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. In  her first vault during the finals at the gymnastics team event, Strug  under-rotated a jump and landed awkwardly, injuring her ankle. “I heard a crack  in my ankle, but you hear a lot of cracks in gymnastics,” Strug said. “Then I  tried to stand up, and I realized something was really wrong. I couldn’t feel my  leg.” Despite the pain, Strug pushed on and completed a memorable second vault,  which propelled the U.S. women to their first team gold.

Read more:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2012/photos/100greatestmoments/#ixzz21f1FU1aZ

Power of having a good Coach

Posted: July 8, 2012 in Best stuff, Inpirational quotes, Motivation, Uncategorized
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What Makes a Good Coach

It is often said that coaching is both an art form as well as a science. A successful coach not only understands how to communicate with players in a way that achieves results, but they effectively guide, inspire and empower their players to realize and develop their individual potential.
The role of a coach in any sport is both powerful and pivotal. Having a good coach not only means the difference between having a team that is successful, but one in which the team members enjoy, excel and thrive. A good coach often wears several hats. They are frequently a mixture of teacher, counselor, cheerleader, motivator, and mentor. Additionally, they must possess several distinguishable qualities that make them a truly good coach.
What does make a good coach? Here are just a few qualities that help define what a good coach is. A good coach is often hard to find and it’s rare that you will find someone that has all of these characteristics. However, a good coach will likely have several of these qualities:

Commitment and Dedication – dedicated and passionate about what they do and it shows in their words and actions.
Knowledge – have an in-depth understanding and comprehension of their sport that goes beyond the basic fundamentals.
Highly inquisitive – are always seeking out and learning new information and ways to improve themselves and their coaching methods.
Disciplined – expect that their players follow a particular code of conduct and adhere to the rules. They also believe strongly in “practicing what they preach”.
Communicative – able to explain their ideas, expectations and instructions in a way their audience can understand with the need for yelling, screaming or demeaning their players.
Motivate – are positive, enthusiastic and inspiration. Good coaches teach their players to believe in themselves and their ability to achieve their goals.
Attentive – can identify and appreciate the individual differences in their players, working with them to accentuate their strengths and accommodate and improve their weaknesses. Their priority is the welfare of the individual players and they look out for their well-being.
Approachable – receptive and available to their players, open to listening to suggestions, questions and concerns, willing to modify training methods based on feedback received.
Coaching is more than just a job, it’s a calling. Anyone who views it as “just a job” is probably not going to fit into the category of a good or great coach. I believe Eddie Robinson, a former head college football coach for Grambling State University summed coaching up best. He was once quoted as saying, “Coaching is a profession of love. You can’t coach people unless you love them.”
Coaches do what they do because they truly love their job. Most strive to be the best that they can be. Not all succeed in become a guiding, inspirational force in their particular sport, but there are many fine examples out there. If you find a team that has a good coach, you are one step closer to achieving your personal and team goals. .