Last summer Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers pitched a perfect game – at least the replay showed that he had done so. The problem was that in what was to have been the final out, the umpire called the runner safe, erasing Galarraga’s place in history. You may remember the story because of how [...]
Posts Tagged ‘perspective’
82. Perfect Sportsmanship.
Posted in Great Examples, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
80. J Mac
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective on February 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Now unless you’re not a fan of Oprah or you’ve been avoiding your local news channel you’ve probably seen the video of J Mac, a high school basketball team manager with autism. Most people saw how J Mac was put in for the final few minutes of his last high school basketball game and the [...]
78. Self-Awareness, Part 4.
Posted in Self-awareness, tagged Excellence, perspective on January 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There was a significant moment in my career in which I realized my own feel for the skeleton track and the pressures and the timing of it was better than any other kind of feedback. I was training for a World Cup race in Nagano, Japan and it was the first time I had ever [...]
76. Nelson Mandela: Rugby Helps Unite a Nation
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged perspective, Value of Sport on December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
At the moment I’m just finishing a book called Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage by Richard Stengel (as quoted below). It’s not a book about sport or history but it does refer to both in describing Mandela’s leadership skills. As was shown in the movie Invictus, Mandela used rugby as a [...]
75. Michael Jordan and the Fear of Failure
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged perspective, The Challenge on December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In any contest there is a winner and a loser and almost anyone would tell you that winning is a lot more fun. But in many ways losing is more valuable in the long run as it helps to define us. When we lose in sport, we learn much more about ourselves, our weaknesses, and [...]
74. Beckie Scott – The System
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, perspective on November 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is the fourth and final clip of Beckie Scott from the interview I had with her earlier this past summer. In this segment Beckie talks about a coach she once had that told her that no Canadian would ever win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing because they didn’t have a “system” behind them like [...]
71. A Great Moment In Sport
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Values on November 8, 2010 |
This is not a great moment in sport in the sense that TSN or ESPN will never rate this as a play of the week, but it’s one in which the two teams involved might never forget. It’s a YouTube video of a high school football game played about a year ago in which both [...]
70. Lessons Learned Through Sport
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged perspective, Value of Sport on November 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today’s post consists of two short videos of Kyle Shewfelt and Beckie Scott talking about the value of sport and the lessons they’ve learned through sport in their lives. Remember these athletes both had long careers and the conclusions both have come to have taken a long time to realize. Hope you enjoy it.
68. John Wooden’s Definition of Success
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, Values on October 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Thanks to Eric for finding this great video of famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden talking about his coaching (and life) philosophies. I’ve referred to Wooden many times in this blog and on Twitter because he typifies the ‘make a better person, get a better athlete’ philosophy of coaching. There’s a great deal of wisdom [...]
67. Don’t Believe the Hype
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, The Challenge on October 14, 2010 |
There’s a part of Andre Agassi’s book Open that I read recently in which he talks about winning his first Major. Prior to that he had been in a number of finals without winning and had really taken a beating in the press for being too much about image and not having what it takes [...]
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