Squeeze The Juice

Squeeze The Juice

Don't play to the whistle.
Play THROUGH the whistle.

Every drill, every practice, every day, try to get as much done as you possibly can.

One or two extra reps will pay bigger and bigger dividends over the course of weeks, months, and years.

I hate when I see players looking over at the coach waiting for them to blow their whistle to signal the end of a drill or practice.

What I want to see is my athletes playing and pushing through the whistle trying to squeeze the juice out of every workout.

The best find a way to squeeze all of their talents.

Kobe used to say that he wanted to get everything that he could out of high God-given talent.  He wanted to maximize his potential.  He said that at the end of his career, he wanted people to think of him as a talented overachiever.  That he was blessed with talent, but that he worked as if he had none.