“If you truly do your best, and only you will really know, then you are successful, and the actual score is immaterial whether it was favorable or unfavorable. However, when you fail to do your best, you have failed even though the score might’ve been to your liking. I want to be able to feel, and want my players sincerely to feel, that doing the best that you’re capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
I don’t think you could find any player to tell you that I mentioned winning. I wanted winning to be the byproduct of the preparation, and failure to prepare is preparing to fail. I always wanted them to have that satisfaction within themselves, that peace of mind within themselves, that they made the effort to execute near their own particular level of competency, not trying to be better than someone else, but be the best that you could be.” -John Wooden
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” -Yvon Chouinard
“Make today your masterpiece.” -John Wooden
I’ll take the “10” effort yet “4” outcome result, over the 4-10 every single day of the week.
It’s what you do when you’re not feeling it, when things aren’t going your way, that will define you in the long run.
Make your EFFORT today, your masterpiece.
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