Aug 10
25
WIN!
I once heard a coach give a closing speech at practice which has been among the most inspiring things I have reflected on lately. He told every one of his players, the ones who had been drug through 2 a days, the ones who had run and kicked and tackled and kept working through heat or rain or injury, that they were there to win everything. “We are here to win everything!”
He told them with such conviction it made my insides shake just to think about it. There was no room in that practice speech for talk of failure. There was no place for doubt or laziness or quitting. No giving up, no giving in, no reason to not make it to the very top. I watched the team as they began to soak in the words of their coach and began thinking to myself about how true this is to life. We are here to win everything. There is no reason why we can not shoot for that. There is no excuse for not doing the very best that we can and making it to the top in everything we aspire to become. There should be no room within ourselves for talk of failure or place in our lives for giving up on our dreams.
That day on the field I heard from the coach some very profound words that chisel away doubt inside of me and remind me of one very important thing. We are in this to win everything! Let’s go out there and do it!
