Monday, October 8, 2012

Coach Meyer Meeting With Team


We got off to a good start with our first practice on October 1st.  We began practice with our Athletic Director speaking to our team and then praying for our team, staff, university and season.  A truly unique way to start the season.

Practice concluded with a surprise visit from Coach Meyer.  As always, Coach was honest and direct with them.   Below are a few thoughts he shared with us:


TOUGHNESS
  • Can take being yelled at.   Some of you have never been yelled at.  Means you are probably soft.
  • Take hard coaching
  • This will be a war
  • Don't cash your chips in
  • This pain is minimal...Wait till childbirth...
  • Your job is to bring your skill level up.
  • Be a good teammate..It's a special thing.  Mickey Mantle tombstone--"He was a great teammate"
TRUSTWORTHY
  • To be where you are supposed to be
  • Keep your mouth shut
  • Drugs and Alcohol alter your perceptions of reality
  • Winners can deal with reality...Can't run and hide.
  • Be a problem solver--look for solutions vs blame
  • Collaboration--teamwork
  • Critical thinker--extra stuff/ study/ this is what separates the great ones.
CANCERS
  • Some are slow acting
  • Coaches have to treat cancers by cutting it out
  • Selfishness causes cancer
  • We all want to play
  • You can control selfishness
  • Not so bad to be dealt a bad hand in spots.  Because "life" will deal you some bad hands.
  • Value of human life--decisions
  • Don't make decisions because they are--Convenient, Easy or Popular.  Make them because they are right.
MARK TWAIN:
  • "Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
  • Our example isn't the main thing. It's the only thing.

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