I love acronyms. When I spoke at TEDxPrincetonLibrary, I talked about HOPE (Hold On Possibilities Exist). Well next week is HOPE week for the New York Yankees. For them, HOPE stands for (Helping Others Persevere and Excel). Watch the video below on HOPE Week 2010. After watching this video, you will never complain again about anything in your life. Enjoy.
It’s more important to be the best person FOR the team than to be the best person ON the team.
Congrats to Brandon Laird, who just got called up to the New York Yankees today. Laird is a class act who plays the game right and deserves this great promotion. Here is my video with Brandon last year. Enjoy.
A big part of sports (and life) is persistence. Hanging on.
When I gave my recent talk at TEDxPrincetonLibrary, I talked about the word “hope” being an acronym—Hold On Possibilities Exist.
What do most people do when adversity strikes?
They give up.
Do you know what the great ones do?
They hang on until they catch on.
They get fascinated instead of frustrated.
They get intrigued instead of irritated.
If you stick with it when times are tough, you will most likely come out on top.
Why? Because not many people will be left.
If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get what everyone else gets.
Be great today.
Without confidence, a golfer is little more than a hacker.
-Bobby Jones
Feel free to substitute the word “golfer” for “tennis player,” “salesperson,” or “musician.”
Of all the rings and all of the money and all of the color and display—they linger only in memory. The spirit, the will to win, and excel, these are the things that endure. The quality of any man’s life is the full measure of his commitment to excellence and to victory, regardless of what field he might be in.
—Vince Lombardi
Congrats to Derek Jeter, the 28th man to reach 3,000 hits and the first Yankee to do so. The following quote puts it best…
I’ve seen him since the Fall League when I think he was 19 years old. He’s still the same kid. A little different haircut, but always plays the game right. He always treats people right and he tries to beat your brains out. That’s a good way to go about things.
—Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona.
Happy Birthday 76th birthday to the Dalai Lama.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
—Dalai Lama
I really like this quote.
Can you apply this to sports? Of course you can.
You can substitute “success,” “peak performance,” “mental toughness,” “personal finance,” and “academic success” with “happiness” and still make this quote true.
It is not our intentions that create our results.
It is not our thoughts that create our results.
It is our ACTIONS that create our results.
Positive actions equal positive results.
Negative actions equal negative results.
Ed Tseng
Director of Mental Conditioning
Monroe Sports Center
609.558.1077