turney
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Spread'em and Shread'em[F4:coachturney]
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Post by turney on Apr 25, 2007 9:03:21 GMT -6
We as a staff have emphasized TEAM the whole spring and now need to take the next step. I am looking for a shirt idea for our kids workout shirts next year. I have thought of the following with PAnther at the top, football at the bottom and quote in the middle, but they just dont seem to hit the nail on the head.
Laying the Foundation
Whatever It Takes!
No Excuses!!
Build a NEW Tradition
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Post by spartancoach on Apr 25, 2007 11:27:09 GMT -6
For our work out shirts, we put the team name and logo on the front (XXXXX Football), and put the below design on the back. The kids really like them. www.savefile.com/files/669634 |
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Post by coachmason2 on Apr 25, 2007 12:59:48 GMT -6
Great slogan spartan just made a poster of it and its going up in the lockerroom today.
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 25, 2007 13:32:01 GMT -6
I do like that, but I like our "Band of Brothers" slogan better. If you want a blood reference, then you've got it.
The full text is on my signature line.
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Post by groundchuck on Apr 25, 2007 13:33:22 GMT -6
I do like that, but I like our "Band of Brothers" slogan better. If you want a blood reference, then you've got it. The full text is on my signature line. I have used the band of brothers quote you have on the sig line. Very good quote, especially when a team in undermanned and/or outmanned. |
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Post by spartancoach on Apr 25, 2007 13:46:52 GMT -6
The Shakespeare "Band of Brothers" quote was on the back of our workout shirts last year.
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 25, 2007 14:29:07 GMT -6
OK, here's a few more -
"The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Thoreau
"Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan
"It is a rough road, that leads to the heights of Greatness." Seneca 60 AD
" they are...Sons of the Dark and Bloody ground." Theodore O'Hara
"It is the Spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory!" George Patton
"Here all distrust must be left behind, all cowardice must be ended." Dante Alighieri
"As you go into battle, remember your ancestors; and remember your descendants." Tacitus
And, from that great movie G.I. Jane, via D.H. Lawrence...
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."
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Post by fbairattack on Apr 25, 2007 19:50:46 GMT -6
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Post by bulldogoption on Apr 25, 2007 22:18:06 GMT -6
A great question for kids I heard came from Speckman, the coach at Willamette in OR. He said he simply asked kids, "Is that gonna help us win?" The question really can be applied to any situation. Kid missed a weight session, kid got in trouble in class, kid came late to practice, kid dropped an f-bomb, etc, etc, etc. It's a different way of telling a kid they know right from wrong, but most kids I know aren't that intrinsically motivated to care about right/wrong........but they do care about winning.
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Post by flycoach on Apr 29, 2007 13:40:06 GMT -6
That is a very valid and interesting point. I work with youth in a correctional setting and your right a lot of kids whether in high school or at our facility when confronted with right and wrong it goes in one ear out the other. Yes  "Is this going to help us win?" or "How is that going to help us win?" Now I'm going to go practice in front of the mirror. |
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go42
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Post by go42 on Apr 29, 2007 18:43:24 GMT -6
It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit.
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Post by fbdoc on May 1, 2007 8:24:00 GMT -6
"As Iron sharpens Iron, so does one man sharpen another."
Proverbs 27:17
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Post by shocktroop34 on May 1, 2007 20:51:57 GMT -6
One year we had the slogan, "I'm in, I'm on". Each player had to come to the head coach and look him in the eye and say those words. It was a way of showing them that their word is their bond. A way of holding them accountable in a different way than normal. They weren't just given shirts because they're on the team. They had to earn them first, and earn them with declaring that they believe in the coaches, the system, the vision. They could only make the declaration when they felt it in their heart. You had some come the first day, you had some come the next week. But they all come. When the team is working out or practicing in their shirts you can read who is taking a while to get on board. But they all want to belong and it unifies your message as a coach. Once a young man looks a person in the eye and makes a statement, for some, it is the first time they have ever learned to do that. You will teach them about the importance of a good handshake and how their words won't be enough to win a championship. But acting on their words will bring success that they won't believe. Try it sometime, you'll like it.
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Post by pegleg on May 2, 2007 9:17:41 GMT -6
if it ain't rough, it ain't right.
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Post by simmsd1 on May 2, 2007 9:45:47 GMT -6
I do like that, but I like our "Band of Brothers" slogan better. If you want a blood reference, then you've got it. The full text is on my signature line. Areyou refering to henry 4th ''we few, we happy few, we band of brothers. for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. be he nair so vail, this day shall gentle his condition. and gentelmen in england now abed shall think themselves crused that they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap while any speak, that fought whith us on saint crispans day'' heak yeah |
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Post by superpower on May 2, 2007 10:23:29 GMT -6
NO EXCUSES...JUST RESULTS!
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luce67
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Post by luce67 on May 2, 2007 10:28:06 GMT -6
Just make shirts with 3 letters on it:
PBB
If anyone asks what it stands for you or your kids tell them:
Pay Backs are Bad
You and your kids know what it really stands for:
Pay Backs A Bitch
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Post by spartancoach on May 2, 2007 12:19:18 GMT -6
I do like that, but I like our "Band of Brothers" slogan better. If you want a blood reference, then you've got it. The full text is on my signature line. Areyou refering to henry 4th ''we few, we happy few, we band of brothers. for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. be he nair so vail, this day shall gentle his condition. and gentelmen in england now abed shall think themselves crused that they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap while any speak, that fought whith us on saint crispans day'' heak yeah So as to not make it too long, we had on the back of the workout shirts, "For he todays that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." |
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"Is this going to help us win?" or "How is that going to help us win?"
