Welcome everybody! -Stevie Nicks
Shock the World 101 is a collection of quotes to inspire coaches and athletes the world over. There are moments in life (and in the game) where we must summon our best effort and rise above the most difficult of circumstances. Only a winning mentality will give us access to the energy found within the extra effort. May these word inspire and energize you for the journey! -Jeff Gordon
Monday, September 6, 2010
SHOCK THE WORLD
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #1
“Success is always a choice.”
Success is not an accident. Success is not luck. Success is something that you choose everyday.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #2
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people won’t do.”
What isn’t given is lost forever.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #3
“Two roads diverged in the woods,
and I took the road less traveled by,
and that has made all of the difference.”
–Robert Frost
There are few travelers on the road to success.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #4
“To win the game is great.
To play the game is greater.
To love the game is greatest.”
Passion is our love for the game. And what you love always gets your time.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #5
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over,
drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion,
while no one else is watching.” –Anson Dorrance
Champions train when no one else is watching.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #6
“Champions need motivation above and beyond winning.”
Every player and team must be domination driven. It is never enough win. We must dominate all phases of the game. This mentality pays off when it matters the most.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #7
“Soccer is a sport for dreamers.
As long as you put in the work you can own the dream.
When the work stops the dream disappears.”
Success begins as a dream and continues as hard work. Everyday effort transforms into the mandatory improvements needed to reach the ultimate goal. Hard work is non-negotiable. The dream is on the line every practice, every rest day and every game. Successful teams and players embrace this because they know they will either appear and show up when it matters the most or disappear when the season and all that they want is on the line.
Shock The World 101 Insight #8
“There will come a time when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.”
The days the matter the least matter the most.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #9
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” –Jim Elliot
We can never get our time together back. We can never get the effort we brought to the event back. Success comes from Training on the edge, from securing the skills, mentality and strategies execution demands. Champions give this daily and have the rings, title and banners to show for it. These become etched in time. These are forever.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #10
“I saw the angel trapped in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michaelangelo
Every team and player we coach is trapped in that marble. Everyday our challenge is to get rid of what doesn’t belong, sculpt what does, and polish what will be. Most will see an ugly stone. And the few will see the angel. What potential will you see?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #11
“Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?"
I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
Often, the only thing in our way is sight without vision. All we see is what is. All we see is Why us? So, we back down from the big dream. It won’t hurt as much. The great one’s have always said Why not us? Impossible is nothing. Which one are you?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #12
“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Are you a dangerous Coach? Do you dare to fight for the highest prizes? Do you dare to work harder,
compete longer and believe more? Or do you wish that one day, someday, next year it will magically appear? Many wait for next year to be the year. The few are after it right now.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #13
“No one will see in you what you do not already see in yourself.”
Confidence must spring from the self outwards. Our identity, the way we see ourselves, determines if we are willing to become the person we must be.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #14
“The biggest mistake we make as coaches is to see our player as they are and not as they can be. There are heroes inside our players…speak to them and they will come forth. Players are as good as we want them to be.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #15
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” –James Allen
Dreams, vision and ideals are what we will unveil. Promise to fight for your highest possibilities. Promise to show everyone who you really are. Promise to turn your vision into reality. Promise to become the person you already are!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #16
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.” -Rose Canter
At the end of the day, an unrelenting vision is much more appreciated than following the status quo. What is often called fun is the path of least resistance. To the Champion, fun is finding our better selves and becoming something much more than we though we were.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #17
“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares.
I overcame my nightmares because of my dreams.”
Nightmares show that we truly care. Dreams take broken hearts back onto the battle field to fight once again.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #18
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
What is your non negotiable ultimate goal?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #19
“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
Everyday is a new chance to make the difference.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #20
“What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.”
Successful teams train with vision. Successful players dream that today will lead them to a Championship tomorrow. Someday, everything they want will be before them. Someday, tomorrow will become the day they have been waiting for. Someday what they are becoming will be what they became!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #21
“Practice is a race against time.
Organization, Tempo and Efficiency equals training. Every second of practice counts. There are never to be wasted moments. Practice must become the game. Every aspect of the biggest game must be covered. We are either getting better or getting worse.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #22
“Without training they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge they lacked confidence.
Without confidence they lacked victory.” Julius Caesar
We always play like we always practice. Practice is the time to build the confidence that leads to victory,
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #23
“Striving for championships is just as important as winning them.” -John Wooden
Dynasties are born from continuous year in and year out effort.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #24
“When the sidelines are empty polish. When the sidelines are full shine.”
Train with championship game vision.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #25
“Every victory is won before the game is played.”
Who you are is who you were.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #26
“Championships are won between the games.”
Did you come to train or be trained? This is a question to be asked of our players. Why are you here today? Have you come out today to give your best effort? Are you going to lay it all on the line? Are you going to leave here better than you were before? Did you bring fresh motivation? Will you be the example for all to follow? Or are you waiting for someone else to get you going? The biggest games, the best performances are won during practice. Will you train to be a Champion today?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #27
“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.”
There is a difference between execution and production.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #28
“Practice makes permanent.”
Every practice can make you better or make you worse.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #29
“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
The only easy day was yesterday.
Competing #20-29
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #30
“Competition is everything.”
Competition is what we face every game. Playing under game day pressure is all that matters. To get the best out of our players we must set up fierce competition in all our training session. Score must be kept. Something must be on the line. A consequence, a reward must be at stake. Our players must find a way to win. We practice the way we play.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #31
“The goal is to dominate the best player you have ever faced.”
This is the ultimate personal goal.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #32
“Competition is realizing how much you have inside of you.”
There is so much more inside each of us then we can ever imagine. We always compete to beat the best inside of us. We want to constantly raise the bar. From one level to the next. Our players will always be amazed at what they will find if we give them the chance.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #33
“Competition means to search together. The aim of competition is not to beat someone else but to search out the best within your-self.”
How do we respond under pressure? How do we perform under pressure? Competition teaches us who we really are. It is a search for how much is really inside of us. It is a quest to discover the type of person we really are. The best within our-selves comes forth in the most difficult of situations. Will we give up? Will we back down? Will we hold back? Or will we, together, fight on to the best performance of our lives? Competition gives us the chance to choose.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #34
“The difference between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary is the little extra.”
The extra effort is what we are after. The little extra effort is how improvement is secured. When mental and physical fatigue sets the heart must take over. Pushing through creates unshakeable confidence. Pushing through strengthens resolve and develops relentlessness. A winning expectation develops. A finding a way to win is created. The extra effort repetition brings the investment into training. We do not want to be ordinary. We must become extra-ordinary. There is no other choice.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #35
“To love winning is easy. To love the battle requires toughness.”
The heat of the battle is when the score is even, the opponent is equal, the game is on the line, and the battle is not going away. Something’s got to give. Who will stop? Who will let up? Who will let their guard down? Who will lose focus? Who will find a way to lose? Tight games are won with toughness. The love of winning is for the front-runner. But when the battle emerges, the tough players and teams win. Train toughness everyday. Winning a battle is much more important than winning a game. Champions win the toughest battles.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #36
In competition, focusing on the future let’s fear beat, focusing on the past let’s frustration beat you, and focusing on the present let’s you perform under pressure and beat you opponent.”
The precious present is where the winning moments live. To the competitor, time is their best friend. The past is over. The future comes after the game. The present moment is where focus turns pressure into performance.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #37
“Competition causes some teams to break. And other teams to break records.”
We love to compete. We love the toughest game, with the most at stake because these are the games that bring out the best in us!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #38
“The athlete’s world is physical. The competitor’s world is mental.”
We need both. Fitness brings the athlete out of the player. Mental toughness brings the Champion out of the player.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #39
“The game is the teacher. Competition is the coach.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #40
“Winning is the quality of the performance, not the final score.”
Champions know that winning is not the final score. Winning is the extra-effort they gave, the risks they took, they moments they dominated, and the performance they displayed. The scoreboard is always on inside their hearts. And the next play is the only play that matters.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #41
“The enemy of the best is the good.”
The good is 2nd best. The first loser. The best of the worse. A bad performance will get your attention. A good one will ease you into a false sleep. A false confidence. A good performance will be defeated by a best performance. To the Champion, Good enough is never good enough. Only our best effort matters.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #42
“Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and to those who believe in it the longest.”
-General Doolittle
When the game is even and on the line, what makes the difference. What within us gets us to continue with all the fight we have. Something’s going to give. Someone’s going to let up. Someone’s waiting for someone else to decide the game. Victory goes to those who keep believing. It goes to those who believe forever. The second doubt sets in, victory is snatched away.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #43
“The goal is winning, the focus is execution.”
Execution, over and over again, break downs and then breaks through.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #44
“I don’t think we can win every game. Just the next one.” Lou Holtz
Every game is the next game. And we must believe that we are going to win. It is never enough to compete. There are no consolation prizes to the Champion. Every next game is to be won. Failure is never an option.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #45
“You must win the game within the game to win the game.”
Adjustments, strategies, match-ups, systems, attacking weaknesses, playing to strengths, taking away the other team…All of these make a difference in real time.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #46
“We have to win every-time to be successful and they have to win only once.”
Champion have more at stake every-time they play. Everyone else has only a few moments to make their mark. Dynasties have every moment. Every game is a championship game to the champion.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #47
“Winners don’t wait for chances, they take them.”
The greatest risk of all is not to risk. A champion is never afraid to fail. It is within these failures that the winning chance comes. The first chance, the last chance wins the day.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #48
To play is in the mind. To win is in the heart.
Playing both hard and smart is the key to any success. Executing the right strategies at the right time is essential to performance. It is never enough to play hard. We must also play smart. Within the mind, within our thought processes lie the keys to victory. Winning is the combination of smart play and a big heart. The biggest hearts will do the little things. The biggest hearts will take the risks. The biggest hearts will do above and beyond what is asked of them. The biggest hearts will find a way to win.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #49
“Winning begins to end when we are silent about the things that matter the most.”
Accountability for greatness must become part of the team culture. The most come from the top down and from the bottom up. Pressure must come from the outside as well as the inside. Coaches set the standards. Players must enforce them. A team goes silent when it is about to lose. And this is unacceptable. A strong, passionate and loud voice must rescue everyone from the temptation of mediocrity. The coach cannot be the only one losing their voice! J
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #50
“The first one to fall doesn’t lose. The last one standing wins.”
Failure is temporary. A lost game, a lost play is not the end. There are many more battles to be won. And all that matters, at the end of the day, is who is left standing, all alone, holding the prize over their heads.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #51
“Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.”
The reason why we win is because we lose. Losing redoubles our effort, re-energizes our will, and re-builds a fire inside. The anger of losing becomes a powerful force for winning. To the champion, nothing is as inspiring as losing!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #52
“We learn more from failure than we do from success.
We often find what we are to do by finding out what not to do.”
A player should lose everyday in practice. A player must be forced to confront their weaknesses. Weaknesses of attitude, weaknesses of skill, weakness of strategy must be refined during every training session. By finding out what does not work we are able to eliminate these and focus of effort on what does work. What not to do must be understood. And each player must know why it doesn’t and be convinced of the better option. Everyday we must chip away at the things that do not belong. And in the end, all that will remain is precious habits of success.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #53
“Winners fail more than losers. Losers fail the same way over and over again.”
Winners always push the envelop. They are always striving to do more and be more. Taking risks, trying to win the game within the game involves a temporary failure. Once we know what approach not to take, we then take the better approach to victory. It is better to have a really bad game then an average game. A really bad game means you went for it. You put it on the line. And even though you failed, you kept at it. Making mistake after mistake enlightens and brightens the way to victory. No one will ever remember the many little mistakes. But they will always remember the play that won the game. What not to do led us to that defining moment!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #54
“Failure is never an event. Failure is never a person. Failure is the same mistakes over and over again.”
What a relief. Mistakes will never define who I am. Learning and adjusting is my success. I will unlearn, and then learn. I will make everything I do a winning habit. I welcome mistakes as a crucial part of my development. I know that I cannot improve without failure. My mistakes are the spring board to the highest levels. I am not threatened. I will adjust, refine, and improve.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #55
“Fall ninety-nine times, stand up one hundred.”
Nothing will ever keep me down. My fighting spirit will get me back up. Falling is on the path to victory. My opponent my win a battle, but I am going to win the war.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #56
“Failure is a few simple mistakes repeated every day.”
It doesn’t take a lot to fail. The current, the riptide can slowly steer me off course only if I let it. I will repeat success everyday. The simple mistake will turn into a new found strength. And my strength will become my weapons. I will never under-estimate the little, simple mistakes. I know they are the difference between arriving in first place, or never arriving, a lost season.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #57
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every-time we fall."
There is glory and honor is rising. There is even glory in falling if we will rise thereafter. Falling can be a great moment. All eyes are now on me. Will I get back up? Will I continue in the battle? Will I get back in the face of my opponent? Will I go at them once again? Will I beat them? Will I make the greatest play ever seen? Will I be the one in the Champions circle? I will be the one!
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Teamwork 60-69
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #60
“Teamwork makes the dreamwork.”
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the power of teams. Everyone playing for the same goal. Everyone playing as one. A force difficult to defeat!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #61
“The strength of the team is the individual. The strength of the individual is the team.”
“A player is only as good as the team around them. The Team is only as good as the players within them. Talent is never enough. Team is never enough. Both are necessary to become Champions!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #62
“Belonging to a team doesn’t give you rights and privileges but commitments and responsibilities.”
Belonging to a team is not enough. Becoming a team gets you closer. Being a team filled with commitment and responsibility opens the door. Finishing a team leads you to the promise land.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #63
“A team-player is someone who wants the success of their teammate as much as they want it for themselves.”
Can it get better said than this? Team chemistry is truly the most important person on the team!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #64
“Teamwork is getting everyone to play with one heartbeat.”
One heart beat. From many comes one. Never underestimate the heartbeat of a Champion!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #65
“There is a big difference between hard-work and teamwork.”
One playing for eleven? Or eleven playing as one?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #66
“Players win games. Teams win championships.”
Every team needs a hero. Every hero needs a game. Every game needs a team. And every team needs a Championship. And every championship needs a team of heroes.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #67
“Team beats talent every-time.”
Shocking the world is possible. It can happen on a regular basis. Are you courageous enough to demand it? Are you confident enough to predict it. Are you tough enough to secure it?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #68
“Teamwork is synergy where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #69
Overachieving 70-79
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Finishing 80-91
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #80
“It is not how hard you push along the way it is having what it takes to finish.”-Michael Jordan
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #81
“There is a fine line between winning and losing-the finish line!”
Winning is finishing
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #82
“In order to finish first, we must first finish.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #83
“It is the last step of the race that counts.”
Winning is finishing.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #84
Shock The World 101 Insight #85
“We get credit for what we finish, not for what we start.”
Beginning something is overrated. Accomplishment is all that matters.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #86
“The best game we play will be the last game of the year.”
Winning the last game of the season means you were really good or really bad.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #87
“Finish-In a hundred mile race, ninety is half way.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #88
“It’s the dead lion that gets up and eats you.” -African Proverb
As long as there is time left, there is time left to win and time left to lose.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #89
“There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
Success is never final. The Tradition must continue. When will next year become this year? Who will be the first to get excited about the upcoming season? The beginning is right now!
Champions 90-101
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ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #91
“Championships are won between the games.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #92
“Championships are won in the hearts of players.”
No heart no ring.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #93
“Winners have dreams. Champions make them come true.”
Anything less than a Championship season is unacceptable.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #94
“Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain.”
Are you willing to pay the price on the road to success?
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ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #100
“To the champion, every second of competition is important.”
The scoreboard is always on.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #101
“Greatness is only one play away.”
The most important play is the next play. We never know which play, which moment will be the one that wins. The last play is the least important play. What is right in front
“Success is always a choice.”
Success is not an accident. Success is not luck. Success is something that you choose everyday.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #2
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people won’t do.”
What isn’t given is lost forever.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #3
“Two roads diverged in the woods,
and I took the road less traveled by,
and that has made all of the difference.”
–Robert Frost
There are few travelers on the road to success.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #4
“To win the game is great.
To play the game is greater.
To love the game is greatest.”
Passion is our love for the game. And what you love always gets your time.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #5
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over,
drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion,
while no one else is watching.” –Anson Dorrance
Champions train when no one else is watching.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #6
“Champions need motivation above and beyond winning.”
Every player and team must be domination driven. It is never enough win. We must dominate all phases of the game. This mentality pays off when it matters the most.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #7
“Soccer is a sport for dreamers.
As long as you put in the work you can own the dream.
When the work stops the dream disappears.”
Success begins as a dream and continues as hard work. Everyday effort transforms into the mandatory improvements needed to reach the ultimate goal. Hard work is non-negotiable. The dream is on the line every practice, every rest day and every game. Successful teams and players embrace this because they know they will either appear and show up when it matters the most or disappear when the season and all that they want is on the line.
Shock The World 101 Insight #8
“There will come a time when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.”
The days the matter the least matter the most.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #9
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” –Jim Elliot
We can never get our time together back. We can never get the effort we brought to the event back. Success comes from Training on the edge, from securing the skills, mentality and strategies execution demands. Champions give this daily and have the rings, title and banners to show for it. These become etched in time. These are forever.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #10
“I saw the angel trapped in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michaelangelo
Every team and player we coach is trapped in that marble. Everyday our challenge is to get rid of what doesn’t belong, sculpt what does, and polish what will be. Most will see an ugly stone. And the few will see the angel. What potential will you see?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #11
“Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?"
I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
Often, the only thing in our way is sight without vision. All we see is what is. All we see is Why us? So, we back down from the big dream. It won’t hurt as much. The great one’s have always said Why not us? Impossible is nothing. Which one are you?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #12
“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Are you a dangerous Coach? Do you dare to fight for the highest prizes? Do you dare to work harder,
compete longer and believe more? Or do you wish that one day, someday, next year it will magically appear? Many wait for next year to be the year. The few are after it right now.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #13
“No one will see in you what you do not already see in yourself.”
Confidence must spring from the self outwards. Our identity, the way we see ourselves, determines if we are willing to become the person we must be.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #14
“The biggest mistake we make as coaches is to see our player as they are and not as they can be. There are heroes inside our players…speak to them and they will come forth. Players are as good as we want them to be.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #15
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” –James Allen
Dreams, vision and ideals are what we will unveil. Promise to fight for your highest possibilities. Promise to show everyone who you really are. Promise to turn your vision into reality. Promise to become the person you already are!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #16
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.” -Rose Canter
At the end of the day, an unrelenting vision is much more appreciated than following the status quo. What is often called fun is the path of least resistance. To the Champion, fun is finding our better selves and becoming something much more than we though we were.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #17
“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares.
I overcame my nightmares because of my dreams.”
Nightmares show that we truly care. Dreams take broken hearts back onto the battle field to fight once again.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #18
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
What is your non negotiable ultimate goal?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #19
“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
Everyday is a new chance to make the difference.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #20
“What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.”
Successful teams train with vision. Successful players dream that today will lead them to a Championship tomorrow. Someday, everything they want will be before them. Someday, tomorrow will become the day they have been waiting for. Someday what they are becoming will be what they became!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #21
“Practice is a race against time.
Organization, Tempo and Efficiency equals training. Every second of practice counts. There are never to be wasted moments. Practice must become the game. Every aspect of the biggest game must be covered. We are either getting better or getting worse.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #22
“Without training they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge they lacked confidence.
Without confidence they lacked victory.” Julius Caesar
We always play like we always practice. Practice is the time to build the confidence that leads to victory,
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #23
“Striving for championships is just as important as winning them.” -John Wooden
Dynasties are born from continuous year in and year out effort.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #24
“When the sidelines are empty polish. When the sidelines are full shine.”
Train with championship game vision.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #25
“Every victory is won before the game is played.”
Who you are is who you were.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #26
“Championships are won between the games.”
Did you come to train or be trained? This is a question to be asked of our players. Why are you here today? Have you come out today to give your best effort? Are you going to lay it all on the line? Are you going to leave here better than you were before? Did you bring fresh motivation? Will you be the example for all to follow? Or are you waiting for someone else to get you going? The biggest games, the best performances are won during practice. Will you train to be a Champion today?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #27
“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.”
There is a difference between execution and production.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #28
“Practice makes permanent.”
Every practice can make you better or make you worse.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #29
“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
The only easy day was yesterday.
Competing #20-29
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #30
“Competition is everything.”
Competition is what we face every game. Playing under game day pressure is all that matters. To get the best out of our players we must set up fierce competition in all our training session. Score must be kept. Something must be on the line. A consequence, a reward must be at stake. Our players must find a way to win. We practice the way we play.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #31
“The goal is to dominate the best player you have ever faced.”
This is the ultimate personal goal.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #32
“Competition is realizing how much you have inside of you.”
There is so much more inside each of us then we can ever imagine. We always compete to beat the best inside of us. We want to constantly raise the bar. From one level to the next. Our players will always be amazed at what they will find if we give them the chance.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #33
“Competition means to search together. The aim of competition is not to beat someone else but to search out the best within your-self.”
How do we respond under pressure? How do we perform under pressure? Competition teaches us who we really are. It is a search for how much is really inside of us. It is a quest to discover the type of person we really are. The best within our-selves comes forth in the most difficult of situations. Will we give up? Will we back down? Will we hold back? Or will we, together, fight on to the best performance of our lives? Competition gives us the chance to choose.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #34
“The difference between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary is the little extra.”
The extra effort is what we are after. The little extra effort is how improvement is secured. When mental and physical fatigue sets the heart must take over. Pushing through creates unshakeable confidence. Pushing through strengthens resolve and develops relentlessness. A winning expectation develops. A finding a way to win is created. The extra effort repetition brings the investment into training. We do not want to be ordinary. We must become extra-ordinary. There is no other choice.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #35
“To love winning is easy. To love the battle requires toughness.”
The heat of the battle is when the score is even, the opponent is equal, the game is on the line, and the battle is not going away. Something’s got to give. Who will stop? Who will let up? Who will let their guard down? Who will lose focus? Who will find a way to lose? Tight games are won with toughness. The love of winning is for the front-runner. But when the battle emerges, the tough players and teams win. Train toughness everyday. Winning a battle is much more important than winning a game. Champions win the toughest battles.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #36
In competition, focusing on the future let’s fear beat, focusing on the past let’s frustration beat you, and focusing on the present let’s you perform under pressure and beat you opponent.”
The precious present is where the winning moments live. To the competitor, time is their best friend. The past is over. The future comes after the game. The present moment is where focus turns pressure into performance.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #37
“Competition causes some teams to break. And other teams to break records.”
We love to compete. We love the toughest game, with the most at stake because these are the games that bring out the best in us!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #38
“The athlete’s world is physical. The competitor’s world is mental.”
We need both. Fitness brings the athlete out of the player. Mental toughness brings the Champion out of the player.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #39
“The game is the teacher. Competition is the coach.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #40
“Winning is the quality of the performance, not the final score.”
Champions know that winning is not the final score. Winning is the extra-effort they gave, the risks they took, they moments they dominated, and the performance they displayed. The scoreboard is always on inside their hearts. And the next play is the only play that matters.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #41
“The enemy of the best is the good.”
The good is 2nd best. The first loser. The best of the worse. A bad performance will get your attention. A good one will ease you into a false sleep. A false confidence. A good performance will be defeated by a best performance. To the Champion, Good enough is never good enough. Only our best effort matters.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #42
“Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and to those who believe in it the longest.”
-General Doolittle
When the game is even and on the line, what makes the difference. What within us gets us to continue with all the fight we have. Something’s going to give. Someone’s going to let up. Someone’s waiting for someone else to decide the game. Victory goes to those who keep believing. It goes to those who believe forever. The second doubt sets in, victory is snatched away.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #43
“The goal is winning, the focus is execution.”
Execution, over and over again, break downs and then breaks through.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #44
“I don’t think we can win every game. Just the next one.” Lou Holtz
Every game is the next game. And we must believe that we are going to win. It is never enough to compete. There are no consolation prizes to the Champion. Every next game is to be won. Failure is never an option.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #45
“You must win the game within the game to win the game.”
Adjustments, strategies, match-ups, systems, attacking weaknesses, playing to strengths, taking away the other team…All of these make a difference in real time.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #46
“We have to win every-time to be successful and they have to win only once.”
Champion have more at stake every-time they play. Everyone else has only a few moments to make their mark. Dynasties have every moment. Every game is a championship game to the champion.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #47
“Winners don’t wait for chances, they take them.”
The greatest risk of all is not to risk. A champion is never afraid to fail. It is within these failures that the winning chance comes. The first chance, the last chance wins the day.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #48
To play is in the mind. To win is in the heart.
Playing both hard and smart is the key to any success. Executing the right strategies at the right time is essential to performance. It is never enough to play hard. We must also play smart. Within the mind, within our thought processes lie the keys to victory. Winning is the combination of smart play and a big heart. The biggest hearts will do the little things. The biggest hearts will take the risks. The biggest hearts will do above and beyond what is asked of them. The biggest hearts will find a way to win.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #49
“Winning begins to end when we are silent about the things that matter the most.”
Accountability for greatness must become part of the team culture. The most come from the top down and from the bottom up. Pressure must come from the outside as well as the inside. Coaches set the standards. Players must enforce them. A team goes silent when it is about to lose. And this is unacceptable. A strong, passionate and loud voice must rescue everyone from the temptation of mediocrity. The coach cannot be the only one losing their voice! J
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #50
“The first one to fall doesn’t lose. The last one standing wins.”
Failure is temporary. A lost game, a lost play is not the end. There are many more battles to be won. And all that matters, at the end of the day, is who is left standing, all alone, holding the prize over their heads.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #51
“Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.”
The reason why we win is because we lose. Losing redoubles our effort, re-energizes our will, and re-builds a fire inside. The anger of losing becomes a powerful force for winning. To the champion, nothing is as inspiring as losing!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #52
“We learn more from failure than we do from success.
We often find what we are to do by finding out what not to do.”
A player should lose everyday in practice. A player must be forced to confront their weaknesses. Weaknesses of attitude, weaknesses of skill, weakness of strategy must be refined during every training session. By finding out what does not work we are able to eliminate these and focus of effort on what does work. What not to do must be understood. And each player must know why it doesn’t and be convinced of the better option. Everyday we must chip away at the things that do not belong. And in the end, all that will remain is precious habits of success.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #53
“Winners fail more than losers. Losers fail the same way over and over again.”
Winners always push the envelop. They are always striving to do more and be more. Taking risks, trying to win the game within the game involves a temporary failure. Once we know what approach not to take, we then take the better approach to victory. It is better to have a really bad game then an average game. A really bad game means you went for it. You put it on the line. And even though you failed, you kept at it. Making mistake after mistake enlightens and brightens the way to victory. No one will ever remember the many little mistakes. But they will always remember the play that won the game. What not to do led us to that defining moment!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #54
“Failure is never an event. Failure is never a person. Failure is the same mistakes over and over again.”
What a relief. Mistakes will never define who I am. Learning and adjusting is my success. I will unlearn, and then learn. I will make everything I do a winning habit. I welcome mistakes as a crucial part of my development. I know that I cannot improve without failure. My mistakes are the spring board to the highest levels. I am not threatened. I will adjust, refine, and improve.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #55
“Fall ninety-nine times, stand up one hundred.”
Nothing will ever keep me down. My fighting spirit will get me back up. Falling is on the path to victory. My opponent my win a battle, but I am going to win the war.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #56
“Failure is a few simple mistakes repeated every day.”
It doesn’t take a lot to fail. The current, the riptide can slowly steer me off course only if I let it. I will repeat success everyday. The simple mistake will turn into a new found strength. And my strength will become my weapons. I will never under-estimate the little, simple mistakes. I know they are the difference between arriving in first place, or never arriving, a lost season.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #57
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every-time we fall."
There is glory and honor is rising. There is even glory in falling if we will rise thereafter. Falling can be a great moment. All eyes are now on me. Will I get back up? Will I continue in the battle? Will I get back in the face of my opponent? Will I go at them once again? Will I beat them? Will I make the greatest play ever seen? Will I be the one in the Champions circle? I will be the one!
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ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #59
Teamwork 60-69
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #60
“Teamwork makes the dreamwork.”
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the power of teams. Everyone playing for the same goal. Everyone playing as one. A force difficult to defeat!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #61
“The strength of the team is the individual. The strength of the individual is the team.”
“A player is only as good as the team around them. The Team is only as good as the players within them. Talent is never enough. Team is never enough. Both are necessary to become Champions!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #62
“Belonging to a team doesn’t give you rights and privileges but commitments and responsibilities.”
Belonging to a team is not enough. Becoming a team gets you closer. Being a team filled with commitment and responsibility opens the door. Finishing a team leads you to the promise land.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #63
“A team-player is someone who wants the success of their teammate as much as they want it for themselves.”
Can it get better said than this? Team chemistry is truly the most important person on the team!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #64
“Teamwork is getting everyone to play with one heartbeat.”
One heart beat. From many comes one. Never underestimate the heartbeat of a Champion!
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #65
“There is a big difference between hard-work and teamwork.”
One playing for eleven? Or eleven playing as one?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #66
“Players win games. Teams win championships.”
Every team needs a hero. Every hero needs a game. Every game needs a team. And every team needs a Championship. And every championship needs a team of heroes.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #67
“Team beats talent every-time.”
Shocking the world is possible. It can happen on a regular basis. Are you courageous enough to demand it? Are you confident enough to predict it. Are you tough enough to secure it?
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #68
“Teamwork is synergy where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #69
Overachieving 70-79
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Finishing 80-91
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #80
“It is not how hard you push along the way it is having what it takes to finish.”-Michael Jordan
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #81
“There is a fine line between winning and losing-the finish line!”
Winning is finishing
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #82
“In order to finish first, we must first finish.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #83
“It is the last step of the race that counts.”
Winning is finishing.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #84
Shock The World 101 Insight #85
“We get credit for what we finish, not for what we start.”
Beginning something is overrated. Accomplishment is all that matters.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #86
“The best game we play will be the last game of the year.”
Winning the last game of the season means you were really good or really bad.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #87
“Finish-In a hundred mile race, ninety is half way.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #88
“It’s the dead lion that gets up and eats you.” -African Proverb
As long as there is time left, there is time left to win and time left to lose.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #89
“There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
Success is never final. The Tradition must continue. When will next year become this year? Who will be the first to get excited about the upcoming season? The beginning is right now!
Champions 90-101
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ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #91
“Championships are won between the games.”
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #92
“Championships are won in the hearts of players.”
No heart no ring.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #93
“Winners have dreams. Champions make them come true.”
Anything less than a Championship season is unacceptable.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #94
“Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain.”
Are you willing to pay the price on the road to success?
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ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #100
“To the champion, every second of competition is important.”
The scoreboard is always on.
ShockTheWorld 101 Insight #101
“Greatness is only one play away.”
The most important play is the next play. We never know which play, which moment will be the one that wins. The last play is the least important play. What is right in front
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