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📚 Best Nuggets From Coaching Books

This one comes from A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein — a look inside Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers.

There’s a short passage that really stuck with me. Before playing Kent State, Knight had to remind his team they could lose.… pic.twitter.com/0Fdqkbk3J1

— Mike Jagacki (@Mike_Jagacki) October 19, 2025

Exceptional coaches seek edges. What can I do better? What can we do better? 

• When you’re the favorite, you have to create urgency.
• When you’re the underdog, you have to create belief. 

Coach Celli can't make you believe in yourselves. That's your job. 

When you look back someday, you won't remember a lot of games. Memory becomes imprinted because of "peak experiences" (exceptionally good or bad moments) and "endings" (how it turned out).

There's a quote, "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." Good advice. 

Lagniappe. In a recent New York Times crossword puzzle, the clue was something like, "find this time frame in paleontology." Paleontology is scientific study of the life of the past...the answer was EON. 

Expand your word power, vocabulary, lexicon. You won't live by volleyball alone.