Selected Passages
Selected passages
Surrender the “me” for the “we.”
When I asked him the next day why he had left the conversation, he replied, “Arguing isn’t where faith is. That just feeds the ego. It’s all in the doing.” To him, there were certain mysteries that you could only understand with the heart, and intellectualizing about them was a waste of time. He accepted God on faith and lived his life accordingly.
If you’re always trying to figure the game out, you won’t be able to respond creatively to what’s going on. I learned to trust the moment—to immerse myself in action as mindfully as possible, so that I could react spontaneously to whatever was taking place.
Success tends to distort reality and make everybody, coaches as well as players, forget their shortcomings and exaggerate their contributions.
The best part of winning, I once heard someone say, is that it’s not losing. There’s something to be said for that