A Coach's Diary

UCLA football coach Chip Kelly met with Jon Gordon for an interview.  Below are some of my notes from the podcast.

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Create an environment where your players have an opportunity to be successful, then get out of their way and let them do what they do best.

Arm your athletes with the tools they need, play to their strengths, and give them the freedom to do what they do best.

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Be teachable.

Be coachable.

Have an internal desire to be better tomorrow than you are today.

Become the best version of yourself.

Want to be your best.

Want to excel.

Have a desire to get better and excel.

Want to get better every, single, day.

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The difference between being good and being great is the size of your desire and what you are willing to sacrifice to be great.

Is your desire for mission accomplishment greater than you desire for personal comfort?

People that want to be great know that you are going to have to make sacrifices and they know what they are sacrficing for.

Everybody loves the idea of being great, but everybody is not in love with the work that it takes to be great.

Would you rather be comfortable?  Or would you rather be great?

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You are either winning or your learning.  The only way that you fail is if you aren't learning.

Get out of your comfort zone.  Find situations where you aren't successful, then learn how to get it done and get better.  Learning is the outcome.  

Try to be a great learner.  Are you growing and developing?  Are you better today than you were yesterday?  If you are learning and growing everyday, then you are being successful.

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We are trying to grow people and not just win football games.

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Its about the root, not the fruit.
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