“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan, 6-Time NBA Champion and 14-time NBA All-Star When [...]
Darrin Donnelly
“If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.” – Lou Holtz, National Champion Football Coach In the classic bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics, Dr. Maxwell Maltz pointed out that human beings are designed to strive for goals. “When man is functioning as [...]
“Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.” – Jim Harbaugh, National Champion Football Coach The way you start your day sets the tone for how your day is going to go. When you wake up in the morning excited about the future and passionate about what you get to do today, you’ll [...]
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden, 10-Time National Champion Basketball Coach There are many things in life we have no control over. The weather, the economy, our genetics, the family and socioeconomic background we are born into, what other people say and do. These [...]
Earlier this year, the world lost a football coaching legend. In January, Coach Philip Haywood passed away after a tragic car accident. He was 73 years old and had just completed his 50th season as a head coach. Coach Haywood spent the last 41 seasons of his career as head coach at Belfry High School, [...]
As we head towards the Super Bowl, I’d like to recommend two Sports for the Soul books that I think are the perfect motivational reads for this occasion. The first book is Victory Favors the Fearless: How to Defeat the 7 Fears That Hold You Back. Why this book? What does a book about a [...]
