Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day – Thursday – January 4, 2024 – John Muir
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” John Muir
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” John Muir
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John F. Kennedy
“We count on winning. And if we lose, don’t beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is – don’t lose.” Knute Rockne
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.” Adlai Stevenson
“The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.” Ara Parseghian
“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” Mike Krzyzewski – Coach K
“And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” Jesus Christ
“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.” Jack Lemmon
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” Samuel Goldwyn
“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