“In my profession, I must be deeply concerned with God’s belief in me and be truly interested in the welfare of my fellowman. No coach should be trusted with the tremendous responsibility of handling young men under the great mental, emotional and physical strain to which they are subjected unless he is spiritually strong.”
- John Wooden; Legendary Basketball Coach
John Wooden - Legendary Basketball Coach and Teacher
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” Jim Rohn
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” Bruce Lee
Summer fun youth sports inspired t-shirts for athletes, coaches and fans of baseball, soccer, basketball, field hockey, volleyball, lacrosse and much more! (Click to check out the Play Strong® store!)
Super-comfortable Play Strong® Summer tees!
“Nothing great was every achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Action springs not from thought, but from readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Shouda, coulda and woulda won’t get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness and regrouping to basics can launch a great comeback.” Pat Riley – Basketball Coach
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden; Basketball Coaching Legend
Play Strong®, the youth sports inspiration brand kicked off it’s summer line “Possible Is Everything” with cool basketball, soccer and tennis designs. “The belief that something is really possible gets us moving and keeps us motivated to accomplish big things” said Steve, Play Strong LLC founder, ‘Possible Is Everything’ is our way of encouraging young athletes and coaches to dream big and work hard to make this the greatest summer ever!” (Check out the Play Strong® website and Summer Sale for 3 days only! Receive 20% off on orders over $40 – coupon code 20SUNFUN )
“Everything is possible for him who believes.”
- Jesus
Looking for some great summer reading? Check out Sports Illustrated Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. “Many of the country’s best writers have long been fascinated with sports, and that passion shows up in their prose. After all, when done right, sportswriting transcends bats and balls to display all the traits of great literature: incision, wit, force and vision, suffused with style and substance...(Click to read the full article and check out the Top 100 List)
Number 6, the best-selling sports book of all time
At 24 years old, the humble Spanish tennis gladiator is French Open Champion again (without losing a set!) and ranked Number 1 in the world, again!…Click to check-out his website…Vamos Rafa!
Clay Master Rafael Nadal 2010 French Open Champion
John Wooden was a legendary success by any standard of greatness, but most importantly he lived up to his own high ideals, his personal principles, his own pyramid of success. A person who humbly teaches, inspires and pays the price to live a great game is truly rare. (Click to check out Bill Walton’s tribute and Coach Wooden’s website) We’ll miss you Coach.
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” Read about the life and impact of a great man…
The great John Wooden with student athletes
“I am more happy,” he said. “Because I am there. I am at the last match. I am what I dreamed it to be a long time ago. Right now anything can happen. I can lose, yes. But I arrived there.” (read entire article)
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy.”
-Jack Nicklaus – Golf Legend
Jack Nicklaus - Golf Legend; Sports Illustrated Cover
“Determining how much stress athletes can take is one of the greatest challenges in coaching. If pushed too hard, athletes deteriorate; if not pushed enough, they never reach their full potential. Coaching decisions concerning when, how much, and how long to push literally make or break an athlete’s chances for success. When coaches err, it’s almost always in the direction of overtraining, because today’s sport world is so dominated by the win-at-all-cost, no-pain-no-gain philosophy.”
- Jim Loehr, Ed.D, Author “Toughness Training For Life”
It’s always tough to be vanquished. Losing is difficult but losing by 29 points, on your home court, in the playoffs, well that’s just grim. (Read article on Boston.com)
Kevin Garnett; Celtic's Superstar
“An important ingredient of patience is perseverance. I tried to instill in our players the desire to do everything correctly – not to give up on something but to persevere until it was mastered.”
- John Wooden; Basketball Coach
“The fact is, sports – the act of play itself – is valuable, and not just as a pathway leading to championship victories. (Sports) allow us to compete and sacrifice, to build character and even if only for a moment, to transcend the everyday.”
- Jim Brown, NFL Hall of Fame in the forward of “The Games Do Count” by Brian Kilmeade
“You wonder how they do it and you look to
see the knack,
You watch the foot in action, or the
shoulder, or the back,
But when you spot the answer where the
higher glamours lurk,
You’ll find in moving higher up the
laurel covered spire,
That the most of it is practice and the
rest of it is work.”
Grantland Rice, “How To Be A Champion”
As written in: “They Call Me Coach” by John Wooden, p. 86
Americans eat over 20 billion hotdogs each year! See how they’re made…check out this video!
BORUNGO KHOLA, Bangladesh — A pinch of salt. A fistful of sugar. A half liter of water. It’s a recipe 8-year-old Mee Akter recites easily while squeezing and scooping her tiny fingers through the air with precision, pretending to measure just the right amount of each ingredient.
“You take the salt with three fingers,” says the little girl in a pink- and blue-ruffled dress, smiling shyly. “I learned it in school last year.”
Over the past 30 years, this simple ‘poor man’s Gatorade’ has become a cheap, trusted home remedy passed down to generations of Bangladeshi moms nationwide. It is bought or whipped up and sipped down at the first sign of diarrhea to stave off dehydration, which can drain a weak child of life in just hours. (Click to read entire USAToday article…)
In a lighthearted story, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick put his “hoodie” support behind Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon, the Tampa Tribune reports. (read entire article…)
Bill Belichick; Hoodie Master
Dynamic Gator, now Denver Bronco, number 15, Tim Tebow sets another record…(check out article)
Shaun White bounced back from a brutal face slam in practice to secure his third straight SuperPipe Gold. (Click here to check out the video.)
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tim Tebow rose above all the distractions caused by coach Urban Meyer’s health concerns and uncertain future and capped a storied college career with his finest performance.
It was the best in BCS history, too.
Tebow threw for a career-high 482 yards and three touchdowns, ran for 51 yards and another score, and fifth-ranked Florida overwhelmed No. 4 Cincinnati 51-24 Friday night in the Sugar Bowl. (Click to read entire article…)
You think Tim Tebow, Kobe Bryant and Peyton Manning are inspirational? Check out Santa…bringin’ the holiday mojo! Play Strong® the super-encouraging sports lifestyle brand for players, coaches, fans and sports families announced the launch of it’s special holiday series “Santa Sports Mojo”. These fun and expressive sports themed illustrations are crazy-cool for the sports lover and include Soccer (“Missile-Toe”), Basketball (“The Stocking Stuffer”), Baseball (“The Snow Cone”), Hockey (“Checking It Twice”) and Football (“The Holiday Rush”) on super-comfortable apparel and branded merchandise. Check out the Play Strong® store!
