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The Route to Winning Goes Through Losing...
What Champions Have to Say...

Winning is a whole lot more fun than losing. "No kidding", you say? Hold on. Hear me out. Successful coaches and players learn in the school of hard knocks that winning arises from the ashes of losing. We all know that no team or player ever started out on day one being a winner.

It is only through losing that the skills, determination, and perseverance are honed that produce winners. It is the refining process that separates the dross from the gold.

Champions Accept Failure as Essential to Becoming Winners

"Failure can boost confidence if it's put in the right perspective. I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan)

"Pro rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike outs would mean that of two years out of twelve I played, I never touched the ball. (Norm Cash)

 

Champions Have a Balanced Attitude About Success & Failure

One great mental strength winners share in common is a balanced attitude about losing. They accept it as part of the game and don't let it shake their confidence. Every time they get knocked down they come back stronger. They know that challenge is a powerful teacher and motivator.

"A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and say's 'I can still do it', he's a champion." (Evander Hollyfield, champion prize fighter.)

 

Champions are Supremely Confident in the Face of Losing

Confidence? You bet, in spades. "I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher." (Rogers Hornsby) You just have to love this attitude!

Champions are Graceful in Defeat and Humble in Victory

At the end of the day, champions don't make excuses for failure and they don't brag about winning. Great champions look at themselves with humility. "I'm sorry I can't put on a show like some of the other goaltenders. I can't look excited because I'm not. I can't shout at other players because that's not my style. I can't dive on easy shots and make them look hard. I guess all I can do is stop pucks. (Glen Hall, Hall of Fame goalie)

See You At the Top!!

Coach Matt

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