Tuesday, April 3, 2018

The vision of a champion by Anson Dorrance. Quotes VIII

-The warm-up has a function: to prepare you to play. Your preparation in warm-up will dictate your game performance. Our game warm-up at UNC takes about 25 minutes. The warm-up is also designed to build the team's confidence.
-As I get closer to game-time, I think it's important to use visualization, to picture myself doing well. Lorrie Fair.
-Different positions should warm-up differently.
-Coming in off the bench. Notice for yourself the mistakes being made, and determine how you can try to solve them, and to contribute, by going in.
-Once you step onto the field, it is a battlefield.
-Be creative and have the courage to take players on.
-There is so much more in me that I can give.
-Whatever you have that your opponent does not, use it to be your best.
-Winning is wonderful but I believe it is not as important as the kind of athlete and person this game helps you to become.
-We prepare to win by continually losing.
-Coach, at UNC we lose in practice every day.
-Athletics only has value if it has an impact on the people who participate in it.
-Our defining quality is the construction of character, done with a balance created by a laissez faire, light-hearted attitude that is strewn throughout all of our high standards and ambition to be the best.
-At UNC we would have died for one another because we genuinely cared about each other.
-They are playing for their teammates, the tradition, and everyone who has ever been affiliated with the program. We would all die to be back in their shoes.
-What you gain from great teams will probably benefit you more as a human being than as an athlete.
-Having a good team basically boils down to a combination of talent, work ethic and leadership.


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