So my sons going into his freshman year of highschool. Hes been a starting slot receiver and safety/ corner his whole life. This will be his first time ever not starting. Unless he decides to play JV, the varsity WR coach (me haha) wants him to play varsity and learn under some of our senior players how to work and grind to get where they want to be. (seriously im not the one who asked him to the head coach asked him to move up for depth reasons were a small school) He has a chance to see the field in garbage time in games as typically we have quite a bit of blow outs every season as we've played or won the fla 2A state championship 4 years in a row. But I don't want him to get frustrated and not work hard because hes buried on the bench.
Anyways trying to find some different and unique ways to motivate him and kind of brain wash him into somethings. Ive heard of suggestive thoughts and if you see things enough you kind of with out even knowing your doing so get them stuck in your head. So what id like to do is get some wall clings (like fathead stickers) for his room im looking for the BEST motivational football quote or just motivational quote to kind of get his butt in gear.
Hes not a lazy kid well he wasn't until fortnite came out. He works hard when hes at practice and at weight lifting. Id just like him to do a little more outside of what is required of him so he can set himself apart a little.
Post your your quotes below. hopefully I find something worth using.
heres a couple of examples I was considering....
The difference between
a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
A lot of football success
is in the mind.
You must believe
you are the best
and then make sure
that you are.
-Bill Shankly
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Both of these sit behind my monitor at work. Print the Pyramid and put it over his door, so he see's it ever day to remind him!
Get that weak shit out of here. This is the real pyramid.
Had that above my bed in college. Never failed me.
Speaking of, is anyone on here interested in a spectacular opportunity to get involved in the cash flow quadrant? /s.
[wipes face after reading it]
"No one has ever drowned in sweat."
Also:
"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
You could do an entire thread with just Lou Holtz
^^ I thought about the one about the what you did yesterday one too
Yeah, I added a couple more...
Well, while nobody may have drowned in Holtz's sweat, I have zero doubts that a number of victims were claimed by his saliva.
Probably, but there were likely more victims of his wit.
Make fun of that little guy all you want, but he won some football games, and motivated some players to excellence.
I hear ya, however I maintain that they were more victims of his spit than his wit.
Great motivational coach. I had to do a sales training and it was a Lou Holtz motivational training video.
My brother's brother-in-law had a scholarship to Notre Damne for football, and he broke his neck diving into a pool. Lou Holt's treated him and his family like shit, and pulled his scholarship. The family has hated him ever since.
Dammit!
FTFY.
(Edited: Fixed spelling of "thpittle".)
You spelled thpittle wrong
Good point. Edited, and leg for you.
That second quote is honestly a personal favorite. It's a good reminder not to get too cocky when you have a big accomplishment, and not to get too down on yourself when you get unlucky.
No one's drown in sweat before, but plenty have drown from Lou Holtz excessive salivation.
Drink. I already have. ;^)
This is more slated towards offensive line but Russ Grimm mentioned this in his HOF speech:
"There's no greater feeling than to be able to move a man from Point A to Point B against his will"
I always loved that quote.
Pain is Temporary,
Chicks Dig Scars
Glory is Forever,
Go For it!
Just kidding, I like the one VTFootbalGrad supplied. Here's another:
"I thought the kid right there you're talking to right there played his nuts off. You can quote me on that s*** too. Played his a** off. Fought his a*** off."
-Bud Foster
One of my greatest achievements was simply standing next to Bud when this was said.
I don't want your life
Here it is.
"If that needle goes anywhere near his leg, I swear to God I'll rip your arms off and beat you to death with them"
Ron Billy Bob Lester
— Frank Beamer
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi
A CHAMPION is simply someone who did NOT give up when they wanted to."--Tom Landry,
EDIT: of course replace "Karate" with "Football"
I'll see your Myagi & raise you Confucius
If you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin.
If you ain't first, you're last.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I want you to run through that line like you're running through Hell with gasoline drawers on!
- any generic old football coach that looks like Mic from Rocky
Clear eyes full hearts can't lose
Replace "in this Dojo" with "on the football field"
And of course
I watched karate kid the other day so I'm a bit nostalgic with the quotes.
Anything coming out of the mouth of this legend:
You know, when you hear Madden say something motivational it can really get guys motivated.
I like this one!
My high school football coach was a big Bear Bryant fan- this was a quote that he put in every players locker at the beginning of the week for our first game of my senior season.
This quote was ALSO used in the movie THIS IS WAR.
Now on the flipside:
Are these goals his or yours? The kid needs to be doing what he wants to do. Now, if he just has zero wants, and you're trying to motivate him to do something (anything at all), then I understand. But maybe he just isn't into it (football). Maybe there's something else he'd rather be doing?
I can say this about my experience: I played football for myself. The team winning contributed to my own satisfaction. I did not play for the coaches; there were several I really disliked. They probably disliked me. I hated practice. I hated all the motivational shit, the chants, the big huddles with some 'deep' speech that was total garbage, and the general attitude. It took away from the game.
In the end, it's a game. You're either competitive or not. You're either into it, or not. If you're not, perhaps you're better off devoting energies to something else.
its one of those dad I wanna be great. but dad I don't want to do anything to be great deals. hed rather be playing fortnite. until he gets to practice then he wants to be the best on the field. its a fine line forsure. but im trying to teach him how to motivate himself and work outside of what he is told to do on his own because I wont force him to do anything. I told him hes to the age where if he wants it he has to go get it. if he wants my help or needs me to set up something for him somewhere I will be all in but im not going to be the motivator anymore myself. thus the reason trying to give him somethings that can maybe help him become a self motivator a little more.
The Malcolm Gladwell "10,000 hours to master a craft"
And in case you get the rebuttal that it's not entirely accurate and true, you can always say "well you'll never know until you commit and get going." And even then, it might just reveal where and what you're suppossed to be along the way.
As some one with a fare amount of experience in receiving sales training and motivation, I can relate to where this is going. May coaches are less motivating than they could be because they assume their goals are what motivated their players. If you are interested in exploring a different approach, find a mini-pamphlet on goal setting that includes the S.M.A.R.T model, where it helps break what you want to achieve into a series of daily habits. Talk to him about his goals, and help him to develop a S.M.A.R.T. plan to achieve them. One of sons had issues connecting work with goals, and we did this a few times. The first few he set goals he would not actually work for, so I called him on it (if you really wanted it you would be willing to work for it - pick something you really want). Some of the condensed Carnegie time management stuff is a good follow-up if they keep making time excuses. Neither of these may make him the football player he could be, but they can help him become the person he wants to be. I am not sure who said it first, but "Motivation comes from within."
I think motivation is overrated; motivation is short term, it will get you through the day at best. Discipline gets you a lot further than motivation. I would focus on spending X hours/week practicing.
Also, practice shouldn't be boring. If practice is boring maybe you need to structure it differently. Ask yourself, and (more importantly) your son, what's so exciting about a game that makes it better than practice? Is it the lack of competition? Is that people are watching? Is it that his friends don't practice at the same position group (or don't play the same sport)? Some of these things can be fixed; you can 'gamifying' practice (or really anything in life) so it becomes a competition. If he's not interested in football because his friends aren't, well, that's a different issue.
**DISCLAIMER: I'm not a parent and I might have been wired differently as a high schooler; I loved practicing, a lot more than games. I think I realized that you see improvement and growth in practice, and to me that was the exciting part. When you do something you've been practicing in a game, you've already seen yourself do that thing 17 times in practice; once you've done something 17 times, the 18th isn't as exciting. I also never played video games, kinda hated being indoors when the sun was out; I just wanted to spend all day playing sports and being outside.
EDIT: Since this post, I've been thinking back to my childhood and thinking more about what made practice fun. I played a ton of little league sports growing up, and backyard football/basketball/baseball, but the only sport I focused on and actually practiced heavily during high school was Tennis.
My least favorite part of practice was doing 'ball feeding drills.' Ball feeding drills are where the coach just stands behind the net with a bucket of balls, and hits the ball to you, and you hit a particular shot to the open court, then the coach feeds the next ball, repeat until you stop. It's very boring because its (1) extremely repetitive, (2) you don't in a rhythm; you hit one shot, the ball doesn't come back, you're just fed another ball by your coach, at the same pace, in the same location; it feels very unnatural, and (3) there's no competitive aspect to it. Despite being boring, ball feeding drills are the only way to practice technique changes, grip changes, footwork changes, or any other specific change. It's an essential exercise to do any time you have to return to practicing the basics of particular shot.
The way my coach would make practice fun was to focus on a specific part of my game, and slowly work it in to the 'big picture'. Start with a 10 minute 'live ball' (meaning you're hitting the ball back and forth, as opposed to the ball being fed to you) warm up. Then, we pick a very particular shot to work on - for example, the inside out forehand (forehand hit from the add side of the court across the body of the opponent). We'd set a timer for 15 minutes and do a ball feeding drill to focus on the specific footwork for this shot. It's boring, but it's ONLY 15 minutes; the end was always in sight. As soon as the timer went off, and the 15 minutes were over, we start playing a game - First shot must be an inside out forehand, after that, play out the point as you would regularly. First to 11 points wins. This part is important; it let me hit the shot in a natural rhythm, it would get my competitive juices flowing, and, it would make me feel like the previous 15 minute drill was 'worth it'. After this, we may play a set where an inside out forehand counts for 2 points instead of 1. In this practice format I've (1) practiced a new shot, (2) practiced what to do after I hit that shot, and (3) practice creating opportunities and using that shot in a competitive situation.
The advantage of structuring a practice like that is that (1) you minimize the 'boring' stuff, and (2), you continually build on the specific skill you are trying to teach, and the player can actually see the benefit of practicing this skill. I know absolutely nothing about how football is practiced, but is it possible that you structure your practices in a way that might make it easier to keep your son engaged/enjoying it?
Good point. Motivation is the emotional component. Discipline is the part that gets results.
Hence, the Bear Bryant quote:
"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."
I'm just here so I won't get fined. - Marshawn Skittles
Say what you will about him... but no quote has stuck with me more than this one. "Effort is between you and you."
That facemask is hardcore.
Oh, theres lots to be said about him....
Can't argue with that quote though
-Malcolm Butler
Somebody has to stay behind and deflate the footballs.
DON'T GET ELIMINATED!!!
This comment is so good, I feel compelled to break my years of silence.
LOL! 😂
KENNY!!! Where you been amigo?
I saw #17 and thought "Awesome, it's Doug Williams!" But it isn't. And now I'm sad.
When someone mentions Dougie Williams & Jason Campbell in the same sentence:
"Put Petey in, he's better than me." - Ryan Gosling in Remember the Titans.
Never forget Ryan Gosling was a disaster on defense in 'Remember the Titans'
"In this game, the most committed wins."
It's not a football quote, but dammit it applies in war and in football.
Points to anyone that can name the source without googling.
"Get up off the ground Son and rub some dirt on it! you'll be fine."
Every coach I had in the 70's
That's not just a coaching thing. It's also a mom thing. I say that all the time. If I don't see blood or bumps, I always tell my daughter to rub some dirt on it, she'll be ok, when she falls
via GIPHY
You can't score if you don't shoot
Defense wins championships
I refer to every kid I see as chief
Am I turning into...my parents?!
Stick it in!
Stick it in!
Stick it in!
"The other team can't win if they can't score." - I'll attribute this to my high school line coach, AL Stecker, but I'm sure he probably got it from someone else. The other quote is my tagine below, which coach also used, but I think it came from General Neyland.
"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -Pat Riley
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
Virginia football sets sights on a strong season.
#16 seed UMBC upset #1 overall seed UVA
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
BUBBLE SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
Rudy. The whole movie.
Not from a football movie, but one of my favorite quotes from a movie is:
"Losers always complain about their 'best'. Winners go home and f*** the prom queen." - John Patrick Mason, The Rock.
Totally underrated movie.
I came here to supply this quote. Well done.
I'm glad others know of the beauty of The Rock.
More of a generic, all 'round motivational that whenever uttered I knew big things were coming:
"Hold my beer."
"I shouldn'ta drank last night, what they say, rally? puke & rally?"
"[To assistant coach]Your f**king wideouts are sh**ty, man! [To player] F**k, are you f**king stupid??"
Coach Jason Brown - Independence Community College
My GF's youngest brother is the same way. Kid would play basketball for hours a day, then fortnite came out, and now it's all he does. I'm 28 and the only video game system I ever wanted/owned was a gameboy color. I just don't get it.
I put up motivational quotes everyday on LinkedIn. I just took a bunch from this convo to go up next week. Thanks guys!
You've got what it takes, but it will take everything you've got.
This, especially, sums up how I feel about our team. Another interpretation (to which I feel is really applicable) is "it will take MORE than what you've got. BETTER than your best."
Not football, but I'm posting anyways.
If that fails there is always
"We didn't say it would be easy. We said it would be worth it."
- VTCC Cadre
"Those kids that kicked your ass today are the sum total of every slack moment you had this week."
- My Pop Warner Coach
Also, have your kid think on this: Michael Jordan's version of playing Fortnite was going outside to play basketball. If he puts in 4 hours of extra practice like he can put 4 hours of Fortnite, he'll probably be in the regular rotation if not starting by the playoffs.
Any Given Sunday
"The inches we need are everywhere around us....
... on this team, we fight for that inch.
Look at the guy next to ya. I think you're going to see a guy that will go that inch with you."
Giggity
"What is simple often isn't easy; what is easy often doesn't last."
~Somebody on here awhile back...
B. Boucher: Mama, when did Benjamin Franklin invent electricity?
Mama Boucher: That's nonsense. I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil.
This is my go-to motivational quote.
"Real Gs move in silence like lasagna" -Lil' Wayne
Good morning.
In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.
Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.
We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!"
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
I'an fly. I'm pilot.
This made me think of another Bill. Not motivational but:
"Game over, man! Game over!"
Which makes me wonder how we're supposed to believe that somebody that boring ever got elected President. Not sure I can willingly suspend my disbelief with respect to that.