How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou HoltzRead
Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
Interpretation
Life encompasses the pursuit of purpose, love, faith, and hope.
In this quote, Lou Holtz emphasizes the fundamental components essential for a fulfilling life. He proposes that having meaningful activities, deep connections with others, a source of belief or faith, and aspirations or hopes are crucial for personal happiness and a sense of belonging.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding purpose in life.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
Coaching is about helping young people have a chance _x000D_ to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility _x000D_ than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have _x000D_ is being called 'Coach.'
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.
The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
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