16 Steps to Becoming a Winner

Here’s an incentive I have used with teams and coaches for practices, games and life:

• Never underestimate your opponent.
• Remember that a great effort is usually the result of a great attitude.
• Dedicate yourself to a mighty purpose.
• Win with humility, lose with grace.
• Ignore those who discourage you.
• Work to improve your moral and spiritual strengths as well as your physical ones.
• Remember that how you conduct yourself off the ‘field’ is just as important as how you conduct yourself on the field.
• Talent is God-given — be humble. Fame is man-given — be thankful.  Conceit is self-given — be careful.
• Don’t ask to be deprived of tension and discipline — these are the  tools that shape success.
• Do what has to be done, when it has to be done and as well as it can be done.
• Remember that when you are not working to improve, your competition is.
• Always give your best.
• Practice like a champion.
• Play like a champion.
• Live like a champion.