“The most important thing is to have the will to prepare to win. Preparation to win is much more important than the will to win. But if you combine the preparation to win and the will to win, I get chills thinking about it,” Mike Krzyzewski

"It's the human condition to be average. It's normal. It's special to get somebody that wants to be the best they can be-that understands how important it is to earn it." Average = Do you work to meet the required standard? Special = Do you work to become the new standard?

You can't want: more playing time a bigger role leadership responsibilities championships to play at the next level If you don't want: to work hard to make sacrifices to discipline yourself to be coached to be held accountable Wants come with requirements.

"To be great, you have to embrace hard things. It's never pretty. It's never easy. It's harder than people can comprehend. But, when you're done complaining about it and you embrace it, everything is easy after that. At some point, you fall in love with the hard." @DilfersDimes 📽️@AdamBreneman81

Is your effort to 'just finish' or is it to 'win at winning'? "Everybody knows how to compete at something. For most people, when they compete - they want to just finish. Then, you have people that win - once. Then, you have individuals that win at winning."

"You build confidence by doing really hard things over and over, because that's your intent. That's your focus. The game honors toughness."-Brad Stevens Toughness isn't doing it once. Toughness is doing it every day, because 'every day is the right way'.

“Don’t be a blame guy. That’s the first sign of loser mentality when you blame someone else for a mistake,” Kirby Smart A winners response to adversity inspires others to seek greatness.