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Strummer
Posted:
9th Jan '04, 3:12pm
9th Jan '04, 3:12pm
Posts: 14
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Anyone out there got any quotes or sayings or proverbs, to help motivate or stimulate an overworked under valued top quality, international (not yet anyway!) soccer coach, to get through the rigours of another soccer weekend?
Words are mightier than the back four!
Re: motivation
9th Jan '04, 3:37pm
Hi
Here are a few quotes that might help.
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right".
Henry Ford
"This world is but canvas to our imaginations".
Henry David Thoreau
"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
Eleanor Roosavelt
"We are what we think".
Buddha
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Bishop Steere
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better"
Emile Coue
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not"
George Bernard Shaw
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours".
Thoreau
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings".
William Blake
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"
Thomas Paine
"Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it"
Unknown
"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"
Napoleon Hill
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance"
Samuel Johnson
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
Albert Einstein
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds"
Norman Vincent Peale
"Seize the day, Carpe Diem"
Quintus Hortius Flaccus 65BC - 8BC
"Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable"
Anonymous
"When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top"
Anon.
Hope they were useful.
Steve
motivation
9th Jan '04, 5:02pm
Or you could be really lame and use Nike (you probably see the logo everwhere on the weekends!).
JUST DO IT coz no one else is going to. If you love what you do it works!
motivation
11th Jan '04, 10:55pm
"Football Starts Afterwards"
Johan Cruyff!!!
motivation
19th Jan '04, 4:16am
My favorite motivational quote:
"Get off your lazy butt BOY!"
My father
motivation
19th Jan '04, 10:39am
"Winning isn't everything, Wanting to is"
"Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win"
motivation
19th Jan '04, 11:15am
Second place is first place for losers
Re: motivation
20th Jan '04, 10:55am
What you do is at least as powerful a motivator or demotivator as what you say. If your players hear you use quotes and they don't match up with what you do and say the rest of the time they will have no impact.
Think about what sort of a climate you want to create, and set about leading that climate in your day-to-day behaviour - be a role model.
Remember too, that motivation is not just about running faster or playing harder. It is important to try to understand how your playes are motivated, and how the react to different styles of coaching. Don't expect them to change - you might have to be the flexible one.
Rob