Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day – Friday – December 22, 2023 – Gene Roddenberry
“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” Gene Roddenberry
“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” Gene Roddenberry
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” Jackie Robinson
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” Yogi Berra
“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.” Steve Prefontaine
“I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don’t win games. Players win games.” Hank Stram
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” Pablo Picasso
The Road Not Taken
BY ROBERT FROST
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
“Action is character.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Dr. Seuss
“Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I’m talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it’s just the whole idea of caring – fiercely caring.” Red Auerbach
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” Clint Eastwood
“Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.” Walter Payton
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.”
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” Ronald Reagan
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” Arthur Conan Doyle
“If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.” Paul “Bear” Bryant
“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.” David Ogilvy
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” Warren Buffett
“The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.” Tom Peters
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” Maya Angelou
“Those who stay will be champions.”
“Commitment is an act, not a word.” Jean-Paul Sartre
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy