Monday, May 20, 2024

How You Play

Most of coaching pre- and post-game observations end up on the scrapheap...often deservedly so. 

Sometimes players listen.

A decade ago as a middle school assistant, the coach asked me to say something after a blowout loss with little resistance. I said, "That was not much of a response to adversity. How you play reflects how you live your life."
Six months later a girl came up to me, "that stuff about how you live your life really got to me."
FWIW, I saw her graduation pictures online from Holy Cross College this weekend. She listened and lived her life well.


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