Mike Brown dropped a definition about winning in life. “If you get knocked down in life and you’re able to get back up and keep fighting - that’s a fricking win.” You need to hear this. Success isn’t always winning. Sometimes it’s refusing to stay down

The highest performers don’t waste energy on things they can’t control. They focus on two things: their effort and their attitude. When adversity hits, don’t look for a shortcut back. Just keep chipping away. One play. One response. One step at a time.

Rick Pitino is right. Every player’s hourglass runs out faster than they think. The practices. The games. The grind. One day… it’s all gone. Cherish every rep. Every moment. Every opportunity. Don’t waste your sand. ⏳

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley said it. And every parent needs to hear it. Here's what parents get wrong about raising resilient kids. [THREAD]🧵

"Most people don't want to be pushed that hard. They want to be pushed to their level of comfort. You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem."

Student before athlete 💪🏽📚🏀

100% Commited 💚#mustangs

38yrs ago today from avg 4pts my Jr year to signing a to @GamecockMBB 13 months later ❕ #Blessed #FrankMcguireArena

“Anybody that's gonna push you loves you more than anybody that's gonna let you stay the same." "When we coach you, when we love you up…that's not me personally attacking you. That's trying to help our team be better. That's trying to help you be better.” 🎥@HornetsReddit

“Everyone should want to continue to improve and everyone should realize, you might need to change to get better” - Pat Summitt

Rick Pitino said it best. Love without discipline spoils. Discipline without love hardens. You need both.

“I don't just give honor to God when we win. He's the reason for all seasons…It wasn't in the cards. I'm never going to turn my back on the game of basketball. It's given too much to me. I'm still favored." (Via @JuliaWesterman 🎥)

Winning becomes possible when nobody is obsessed with being the reason for it. No one fighting for the spotlight. No one worried about who gets mentioned. Just people locked in, doing their job, making the extra effort, and putting the team above themselves.

UCONN HC Dan Hurley - Building a System/Identity - "Our system is how hard we play. How hard we get after people every single possession at both ends of the court & on the backboard." - "The number one thing you got to understand if you want to have a program that can sustainably be successful and have a chance to win every single night... It's hard to coach that way because it's fu**ing exhausting. To coach every single possession, every single day and when the losing team runs the line because every single drill we do there is a winner & a loser, when they get this close and miss that line, you better be there to call them out and make the whole team now run with them." - "If you want to start the game 6-0, like I start most games just because my team is ready to go because we go so hard every day."

Great coaches are truth tellers. “When you experience failure you have two options. You can either tell yourself the truth or you can lie to yourself.” Most people avoid the truth. Great teams embrace it.

Coaches here’s my profile for you to check out.

“Give me toughness over talent any day - I can take a tough kid and make him a better player but there is no coaching for a kid that’s soft” - Jim Calhoun

Jhnai Sumter signs with Lander! We know you will shine at the next level! @lrhsdhornets @LadyDiamondWBB

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥 You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts. Hard is the lesson. Watch. Share. Bookmark.