Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time."
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Pete Carroll
Football Coach
"Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen."
Dean Smith
Basketball Coach
"Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else."
Bill McCartney
Coach
"All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure."
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"Forget the failures. Keep the lessons."
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"There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change."
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"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
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"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
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"I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less"
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"I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual."
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"If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening."
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"I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well."
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"If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal."
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"He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay out cones."
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"Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing."
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"Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance."
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"The only real training for leadership is leadership."
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"That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character."
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"The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation."
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"I've always believed in quickness over strength and size."
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"The most important thing is team morale."
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"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
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"If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?"
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"The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt"
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