Are you a hero or a Warrior? pic.twitter.com/qhksbOT7KX
— Jon Gordon (@JonGordon11) February 22, 2026
In individual sports, it's about you. Golf, singles tennis, individual swimming events..."run your race."
Team sports differ. The Brits would say, "The sum of the parts..." in the fashion of "...lead a horse..."
Here are a few Anson Dorrance quotes:
"Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena."
It is critical for you as a young player to understand that vision and great tactical minds are built on a complete foundation of skill, so that you can problem-solve individually and hurt the other team tactically. Knowing what to do is easily compromised by being unable to do it.
"One of the wonderful life lessons of athletics is that success itself shouldn’t be the ultimate reward--because there are a lot of people who work incredibly hard and never "make it". What is important, above all, is being in the arena."
One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great sh is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.
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