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Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl: (and other truths about winning!) Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl: by Dan Blank
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“As soon as you begin assigning responsibility for your failures to forces beyond your control, what you’re really saying is, “Look at me! I’m a victim!”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.” -”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“excuses because no one wants to hear them. If you want to be a winner, you need to demand more of yourself. You need to have a higher standard. You need to own the responsibility of steering your ship.   You”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“In order to impose yourself on the contest at maximum volume, you’ve got to maximize your competitive fury. Let me put it to you another way: All other things being equal, the competitor beats the player.”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“You have a right to expect the very best from your teammates and they have the right to expect the same from you. Learn to hold your teammates accountable and welcome it when they do the same for you.”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“Take nothing for granted. Once you’ve seen a miracle, you fear the miracle. Beware of the opponent who is giving herself a chance to be lucky. Stay paranoid. Finish your job. Relax when the game is over and not a second before.”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“Winners have this beautiful paranoia that won’t let them take their foot off the gas regardless of the score. They love winning, but they are utterly obsessed about not losing. They refuse to give the opponent a chance to hurt them. They are the ones who will gladly do the dirty work that others are not willing to do. They refuse to accept defeat as an option. And I cannot possibly have enough of those players in my team.  ”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“When you begin to see your failures as yours and no one else’s, you’ll be amazed at the lengths you will go to prevent them. And the sum of those lengths is the cornerstone of every winner: work rate. The correlation between work rate and success is paramount. Never will you find one without the other. Work rate is the not-so-secret ingredient in every success formula.”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“If you want to be a winner, you must accept that you are the margin of victory”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“If you are serious about winning, then you have to believe that it does begin with one. It begins with one personality that refuses to accept less than excellence; one personality that has the courage to police the standards of the team and confront teammates who aren’t living up to those standards. It begins with one personality that has the courage to stand up and say, “This team is about winning championships and you either get on board with that or you pack your bags.”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl:
“I’m telling you now, if you want to be part of a true winner, you need to choose between your teammates and the mission.”
Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl: