Will’s Dad! Coaching at Rancho Mirage HS basketball and golf. Organize tournaments and sell some gear as well😉
Rancho Mirage, CA
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Early birthday present with my first hole in one on the 8th hole at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club!!!
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Find a staff that trusts and empowers their creatives. Couldn’t be more proud of this program and where it’s going.
🎥 | @CiaranDooley3, @mafews_creative, 🙋🏼♂️
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Top 25 Best Nicknames in Sports History
1. The Great One - Wayne Gretzky
2. The Hitman - Tommy Hearns
3. The Sultan of Swat - Babe Ruth
4. Manos De Piedra - Roberto Duran
5. Iceman - George Gervin
6. Magic - Magic Johnson
7. The Say Hey Kid - Willie Mays
8. Sweetness - Walter Payton
9. Black Mamba - Kobe Bryant
10. The Big Unit - Randy Johnson
11. Canelo - Saul Álvarez
12. Mr. October - Reggie Jackson
13. The Rocket - Roger Clemens
14. Prime Time - Deion Sanders
15. The Answer - Allen Iverson
16. MegaTron - Calvin Johnson
17. The Golden Bear - Jack Nicklaus
18. Marvelous - Marvin Hagler
19. White Chocolate - Jason Williams
20. The Iron Horse - Lou Gehrig
21. The Greatest - Muhammad Ali
22. Big Papi - David Ortiz
23. Iron Mike - Mike Tyson
24. Beast Mode - Marshawn Lynch
25. The Minister of Defense - Reggie White
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This is one hell of a quote from UCLA HC Bob Chesney on practice
“The leading cause of success is well managed failure”
Chesney understands that the old saying “perfect practice makes perfect” is 100% false, and that a certain amount of failing in practice is what makes you
Improve. If you don’t fail, you don’t have to problem solve, and Football is a game of problem solving
So many coaches don’t fully grasp this concept and I am now even more impressed with Chesney than I already was. UCLA got an absolute stud
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Bob Chesney shares a must-listen on culture and respect.
"They're not here to pick up after you. They're part of our team. They are your equal."
"The best teams in America - it's never about any one person."
Know their name. Respect everyone.
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Want to win once? Set a goal.
Want to win consistently? Build process and standards.
Bob Chesney nailed it:
“I think goals are for people who want to win once. I think processing standards are for people that want to win long-term.”
Goals give you direction. Standards drive your daily behavior.
That’s how winning cultures are built.
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Honoring the remarkable legacy of 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐧.
John Wooden was born on this day in 1910.
We're remembering the late @BoilerBall and @UCLAMBB icon by looking back at how his speed helped revolutionize the game.
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“100 makes” designed to be a warm up BEFORE your workout.
All shots are close to the hoop for confidence and touch
FULL details ⬇️
Form shooting (all swishes)
5 spots - 10 swishes per spot
Right block bank shots
5 makes
Left block bank shots
5 makes
“Spin outs” 1-2 catch
5 makes each side (10 total)
“Spin outs” hop catch
5 makes each side (10 total)
Jab - shot
5 makes right foot
5 makes left foot
(10 total)
Jab - one dibble pull up
5 makes right
5 makes left
(10 total)
100 TOTAL MAKES
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Tonight Garrett Mitchell reached over the wall in center field and took a home run away from the San Diego Padres.
He did it with an insulin pump in his back left pocket.
He fell to the 14th round out of high school because of what is in that pocket.
Start in the third grade.
He told his mother he did not feel well. He was going to the bathroom about once an hour and his stomach hurt.
Shannon Van Dyke had her son's blood sugar tested. A healthy number is around 80. The meter would not give her a number at all. It just read HIGH. The real figure was over 600.
"I remember my heart dropping, being afraid, and not knowing what to do or what our future looked like."
He got the pump at 10. She began setting an alarm for 2 or 3 in the morning to test him while he slept. She has said those years felt like having a newborn.
He kept playing. He carried a bag everywhere with snacks, insulin and sugar in it.
By his senior season at Orange Lutheran High School in California he was one of the best young outfielders in the country, and scouts had him going somewhere in the first three rounds.
He went in the 14th. The Oakland Athletics took him.
His coach at UCLA, John Savage, said the diabetes hurt his draft value. There were, in his words, lingering questions about it.
His agent Scott Boras later put a number on what it cost. Without the condition, Boras said, Mitchell could have been a top 5 pick.
So he turned the Athletics down and went to UCLA instead.
In three seasons there he hit .327. He hit 15 triples, second most in the history of that program, and his 12 in 2019 set a UCLA record and led all of college baseball.
In June of 2020 the Milwaukee Brewers took him 20th overall in the first round. He signed for $3,242,900.
"My hands were shaking."
Now here is the part that tells you what this actually costs him.
On September 13 of this year, Milwaukee took him out of a game in the middle of the afternoon. He was not injured.
"We took him out precautionary. He had high blood sugar."
His manager Pat Murphy added that it happens a lot going from a night game to a day game, and that the team keeps working on it.
That was three and a half weeks ago.
Tonight he robbed a home run in a game San Diego had to win, and Milwaukee is going to the National League Championship Series.
His mother once described the pump like this.
"You will notice it in his back left pocket. It never leaves his body, even when he's playing."
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Nolan Ryan’s arm was so damaged by the first 5000 innings of his career he was only able to strike out 16 Blue Jays when he no-hit them at age 44. It’s a cautionary tale for all young pitchers.
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Geno Auriemma shares how he explains success to his players and why showing up isn't enough.
"If you go to class and you do average work, you're gonna get a C. That's why it's called average."
"If you want a B, you have to do more work. If you want an A, you have to do even more work and you have to give up stuff."
You get what you earn in life.
"You have to sacrifice. Maybe you can't do all the things that everybody else does."
It means if you want more then you have to be willing to do more.
"If you're just happy getting Bs all your life, there's nothing wrong with that either. But you're never gonna get the satisfaction of what it feels like to get an A."
Then he connected it to basketball:
"If you just wanna be average, then you do average work. If you wanna be a little bit above average then you do a little more work."
"If you wanna get As in basketball, then you gotta do stuff that other people aren't willing to do - especially if you have the talent like we do. We have talent."
It means bring a mindset of excellence to everything that you do. Excellence isn't the goal - it's the standard you set.
Then he called out the entitlement problem:
"Some of these younger guys coming out of high school, man, they wanna show up and go, 'I'm here. Where's my 3.7?'"
"Like my father used to say, 'I got your 3.7 right here.'"
Showing up doesn't earn you anything. Doing the work does.
You get the grade you earn - in school, in basketball, and in life.
It's easy to be average...successful people look to compete in everything they do.
(🎥UCTV Sports )
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Ben McCollum shares what it feels like to be around first-place people and a first-place culture.
"I went to Northwest Missouri State, and my first practice with Steve Tapmeyer - best coach I've ever been around - I sat there and I'm like, 'This is what first place feels like. This is what a first-place culture feels like. This is what first-place people feel like.'"
That was the wake-up call. He realized what first-place people have:
"They've got an extreme work ethic. They've got an edge to 'em that other people don't - a competitive spirit."
Then he quoted John Thompson:
"You can tame a fool a lot quicker than you can resurrect a corpse...We want guys with a little edge to 'em."
You can coach skills, but you can't coach competitive spirit. You don't want to consistently coach their effort and attitude.
The last thing they look for: Energy givers.
"Over the years, we found that guys that are moody don't make it in our program."
"If you're moody, if you have low energy, if you suck the life out of the building - you don't make it."
Talent isn't enough. Your energy matters. Your attitude matters.
Successful people have a competitive edge, they bring energy, and they look to consistently get better.
They raise the standard through what they do.
(🎥 Watts Happening Podcast)
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Shaquille O'Neal looked his six kids dead in the eye and told them they were not touching a single cent of his $400 million empire unless they earned two college degrees first. He made it clear: "We ain't rich. I'm rich."
The best part is that he actually enforces it.
When his son Myles wanted to be a DJ, Shaq made him present a full business model before funding a single piece of equipment. Today, Myles holds a Las Vegas residency.
His son Shareef is working a real job for his dad at Reebok.
His oldest daughter Taahirah graduated Magna Cum Laude and went straight into corporate communications.
And just this past May, his son Shaqir graduated from college and immediately announced he was going back for his second degree just to meet his father's baseline standard.
We live in a culture where parents bend over backward to give their kids everything they never had, but in the process, they strip away all their drive and character. Shaq realized that handing his children everything would ultimately teach them absolutely nothing about the value of hard work.
Fame and wealth didn't stop him from being a traditional father who demands accountability. How many other parents actually have the backbone to raise their kids with this kind of standard today?
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I'm in and out of a lot of professional sports organizations and there's a tiny signal I’ve noticed that separates great cultures from the rest: how they publicly talk about others behind their back.
This recently just happened.
I’m with a group of people and one person started to speak highly of fellow colleague on the coaching staff who wasn't present.
Another coach added to it.
And then a different coach added his positive experience.
When all of a sudden, we’re deep into a conversation of how great their co-worker is.
To me, their words revealed just as much about them as they did about the person they were talking about.
Great cultures not only speak highly about people when they're not around, but also, if they do have a problem with someone, they say it to their face.
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Molly Miller shares a simple tool that on how she builds culture and it starts with a sticky note.
"You cannot cut corners. We did not take any shortcuts in our culture. We have culture checks daily."
But here's the genius part - how she does it without stopping practice:
"This was a 2AM idea. You know those sticky notes?"
"During practice, if I don't want to interrupt the flow but I want them to check their culture real quick - like body language, for example. Let's say someone turned it over and they slump their shoulders and don't get back on defense."
"I'll have my manager write on a sticky note, 'Poor body language,' and she just slaps it on the scorer's table."
"At the end, we'll go look at our stickies and see how we need to get better."
No stopping or long lectures. Just immediate, non-judgmental feedback.
"It's very direct and it's non-judgmental feedback, and it's immediate."
"If someone has poor body language, I'll just be like, 'Sticky, poor body language.' We don't have to stop the drill and belabor the point. It's a, 'Oh, I better fix my body language.' And then it's a note - it's for everyone to see."
"If you wanna change behavior, use stickies."
Culture isn't built in meetings. It's built in moments.
Daily checks. Immediate feedback. No shortcuts.
(🎥@Bickley_Marotta | @MollyMiller33)
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Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way
“Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’”
“‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.”
“I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.”
“I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’”
“Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.”
“You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.”
“I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”
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Your hourglass is already running. ⏳
One day, the practices, games, bus rides, teammates, and grind are gone.
Don’t take it for granted.
Cherish the reps.
Embrace the hard.
Be where your feet are.
Make today your masterpiece.
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Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from
“I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”
“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”
“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”
“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”
“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”
“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”
