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Post by coachmacplains on Jul 31, 2007 15:33:55 GMT -6
Thought it might be interesting to find out any good quotes you've come across in your reading this summer, maybe something you can use with your athletes this fall. Mine comes from Tony DeMeo's book on coaching the triple option, p. 34. "The wide receiver strictly adheres to the fact that blocking is a manifestiation of commitment to the team." My wideouts will get a dose of that this year.  |
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Post by phantom on Jul 31, 2007 15:42:14 GMT -6
It's an old one but I heard it on the radio today:
"Everybody has a plan until they get hit"
Teddy Atlas
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Post by ex-centralcoach on Jul 31, 2007 15:50:02 GMT -6
I just finished Sam Sheridan's book called "A Fighter's Heart". He talks about a quote that JFK kept in his wallet.
Bullfight critics ranked in rows,
Crowd the enormous plaza full,
But there is only one who knows,
He's the man who fights the bull.
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Post by brophy on Jul 31, 2007 15:53:18 GMT -6
I ran across this quatrain that I felt was apropos for our season The convict Queen seeing her daughter pale,
Because of a sorrow locked up in her breast:
Lamentable cries will come then from Angouleme,
And the marriage of the first cousin impeded.
The house of Lorraine will make way for Vendome,
The high put low, and the low put high:
The son of Mammon will be elected in Rome,
And the two great ones will be put at a loss.
Trust me, I will be hammering that one on the kids all season |
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Post by phantom on Jul 31, 2007 16:17:51 GMT -6
Our kids just eat up quatrains.
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Post by ex-centralcoach on Jul 31, 2007 16:28:07 GMT -6
I heart quatrains
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Post by coachmacplains on Jul 31, 2007 16:29:49 GMT -6
Hmm...this must prove that guys on the defensive side of the ball have a little more going on in the gray cells. By the way, was Nostradamus a DC?
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Post by coachcalande on Jul 31, 2007 17:58:00 GMT -6
"playoffs?...playoffs?! dont talk to me about playoffs!"
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Post by fbdoc on Jul 31, 2007 19:12:31 GMT -6
Here are a couple ...
"If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven" Edward Westcott.
"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it" Camus.
"Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but it is hardly suitable for delicate boys." Oscar Wilde
"I do not know upon what subject he will next employ he versatile incapacity." A.E. Housman
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." Alexander the Great
and my new favorite - as the Dean of Students at our school - I see it in action almost every day...
"The chief difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits." Evan Esar
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Post by aleator on Jul 31, 2007 20:27:10 GMT -6
"Men have fought and winners have won because of their COMMITMENT to each other." ALL IN! The back of our summer strength & conditioning shirt. |
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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Jul 31, 2007 21:03:59 GMT -6
By the way, was Nostradamus a DC? Should always have the right defense called!! |
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Post by ajreaper on Jul 31, 2007 21:34:03 GMT -6
From Nick Saban's book: How good do you want to be?
"You don't always get what you want but you always get what you deserve"
"Everything you do, you do to the team"
"Get out of yourself and into the team"
One of the best books I've read in a long time- right up there with my all time favorites Lou Holtz and Bobby Bowden.
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Post by coachchad on Jul 31, 2007 21:48:37 GMT -6
had a kid this summer who missed the first three weeks of lifting, and we hadn't seen him since spring. When I asked him where had he been, he replied, "I just lost track of time, coach." Maybe not on par with Shakespeare, but pretty good nonetheless.
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Post by coachjim on Aug 1, 2007 6:49:47 GMT -6
Hahaha... quatrains... see, that's why you're going to win the championship this year, Broph. Quatrains!
I like these quotes:
"If God is for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31
"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain."
"I must be cruel only to be kind,
thus bad begins, but worse remains behind." Shakespeare
"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life." Disraeli
"Shall we accept good from God and not trouble? " Job
"Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far." Euripides
"Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light." Milton
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Post by bulldogoption on Aug 1, 2007 10:15:40 GMT -6
From Nick Saban's book: How good do you want to be? "You don't always get what you want but you always get what you deserve" The Jewish and Tutsi deserved to be targeted for ethnic cleansing? Babies deserve to be born with AIDS? I understand the point of the quote but I think it is too broad of a statement. It comes across wrong, IMO. |
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Post by ajreaper on Aug 1, 2007 10:57:58 GMT -6
I don't think it was directed at large groups but at individuals and I know it has absolutely nothing to do with those types of situations (I could even go into how some did not end up like the others becuase of choices they made but that's not at all what this thread is about).
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Post by rip60zgo on Aug 1, 2007 11:16:06 GMT -6
"The tall guy is always a little bit open." -- Mike Leach
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Post by bulldogoption on Aug 1, 2007 12:20:24 GMT -6
I don't think it was directed at large groups but at individuals and I know it has absolutely nothing to do with those types of situations (I could even go into how some did not end up like the others becuase of choices they made but that's not at all what this thread is about). Coach, I understand your point. It is probably aimed at players who haven't worked hard enough then not getting a starting spot or losing close games etc, etc. My point is that in context it makes sense. But standing alone, it is wrong, and I would be afraid to put something like that on a tshirt or with our program. IMO |
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Post by mrsixx6 on Aug 1, 2007 14:44:03 GMT -6
"The tall guy is always a little bit open." -- Mike Leach
.....awesome...my favorite one yet....
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Post by airman on Aug 1, 2007 15:15:21 GMT -6
reporter asks losing coach IF he is going to win a game this year.
coach responds," IF a frog had wings, he would not bump his a** on the ground"
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Post by darebelcoach on Aug 1, 2007 16:58:07 GMT -6
Saw this one and liked it so much we actually had it put on the back of our summer camp t-shirts
"Football does not build character.....it eliminates the weak ones"
Enough said
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Post by threeback on Aug 1, 2007 18:12:57 GMT -6
I have something I would like to share that our seniors from a couple of years ago did. They were the first group of seniors to finish the season with at .500 winning percentage or above in nearly 12 years at our school, and the first group of kids that were in our program from sophomores on up. They wanted to give our head coach a thank you for helping them turn the program around, so we used Adobe Photoshop to create a nice collage of action shots, etc., and they asked me to write something for them that summed up what coaches do. Though it is not in "quatrains"- LOL, I think it sums up what we do- and love to do.
A coach is more than a man.......
He's a father.
He's a brother.
He's a teacher.
He's a student.
He dictates.
He explains.
He commands.
He listens.
He scolds.
He hugs.
He sculpts.
He molds.
He leads.
He follows.
He cries.
He laughs.
He cares.
He loves.
He is the reason I am who I am.
When the seniors gave it to him, it was the first time I ever saw him speechless.
-on the more humorous side,
we had a kid come in on the second to last day of two a days- hadn't seen him all summer, and he said that the reason that he couldn't make it over the summer was because he "had ulcers". Took all I had not to bust out laughing when I heard it.
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