Life Lessons: Coach Paterno & Coach K

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The Life Lessons special on ESPN was full of great thoughts from Coach Paterno and Coach K. We look forward to sharing it with our team. The special opened with Grant Hill and Jack Ham sharing the following lessons from their respective coaches:

* Commitment means no compromise.
* All out effort, all the time--Don't let up.
* Self-confidence comes from inside
* There is motivating power in Pride
* Integrity comes first
* Character is built over time
* Conditioning
* Composure
* Practice
* Push yourself
* Work hard

Joe Paterno's Thoughts on Coaching/ Teaching

From Joe Paterno:

Basic Beliefs
1. The Coach is a Teacher, not a Strategist.
a. Coaching is one thing. It is creating in practice the situation the player will face in the game, and then repeating it until he can react by rote memory.

2. Have a directed work effort toward constructive things.

3. Performance is what counts.
a. Potential makes no difference.
b. Don't ever get sold on what defeats the teams you can beat anyway. Devote yourself only to those plays which will win the championship game for you.
c. Practice to beat great teams.

4. Consistency
a. Team that wins is the team that makes the fewest number of bad plays.
b. The best player is the player who makes the fewest bad individual plays.