Own Your Power

Earn the right to win. Commitment and discipline allow you to own self-belief. 

Nobody achieves perfection. Baseball all-stars get hits three of every ten at bats. 

"You own your paycheck." Your work ethic produces court time, role, and recognition. Hard work doesn't guarantee you'll be a 'star'. Not working guarantees you won't. 

Bring your best self to every venue - home, class, court. You matter.

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. "
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (We Should All Be Feminists)

Lagniappe. Working on back row attacks... 

Lagniappe 2. One-sided pepper.