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"If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would
be enough evidence to convict me." |
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Quote by John Wooden |
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"There is team togetherness that happens in football unlike any other
sport." Pastor Paul Wilke quoted in the
Derby Informer |
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"You know, I had the good fortune to play college ball for a man
considered one of the greatest coaches of all time, Paul 'Bear' Bryant
at Texas A&M and I also played for some of the best when I was playing
in the NFL for 15 years. But in all honesty, G.W. Tellerson, my high
school coach back there in Christoval High School in Texas, had the
greatest influence on my life of anyone I've ever known. He taught me
a lot more than how to play football." Quote by Jack Pardee from the
book 'Where Dreams Die Hard' by Carlton Stowers about a small
American town and its six-man football team. |
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Ed Kriwiel of Wichita West and Kapaun once said, "The more you
win, the less friends you got." |
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“Holding is prohibited by the rules because it does not belong in
the game of football. It is unfair play. It eliminates skill. The
slowest and clumsiest man on the field could run for a touchdown on
every play if his teammates held their man long enough. The object
of the game is to advance the ball by strategy, skill, and speed
without holding one's opponent.... If your coach cannot show you how
to advance the ball without holding your opponents, it is fair to
assume that he does not understand the basic strategy of the game.”
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from the book 'Football Principles and Play' by David Nelson |
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What is a Spartan......."To explain the
experience of a team sport and pinpoint its success is very hard to
articulate. This is true for most experiences where people are
involved in interpersonal relations. The reason is, the knowledge
gained or lessons learned are very hard to measure. We are far from a
scientific environment and there are too many variables that
contaminate the project. This is why some educators see little value
in interscholastic sport. The knowledge gained cannot be measure by
GPA's or an aptitude test. It's difficult to measure what we call
intangibles. That would be like trying to measure one's faith or
someone's capacity for love. What is learned is written on the hearts,
and minds of every member who participates and experiences.
We measure our success by how well we have embraced the spirit
and essence of those intangibles."...... |
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This quote was found on the De La Salle Football
website. |
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"Learn it right and you will do it right the rest of your life,
learn it wrong and you'll spend the rest of your life trying to get
it right, and in battle, you meat heads that get it wrong, the rest
of your life will be very short."
-Sergeant Steve Prazenka- (Bloody Bucket Division W.W.II)
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| Bubba Starling dreams of eating up fly
balls like Jim Edmonds. He dreams of hitting laser beams to all fields
like Joe Mauer. The images come mostly from his imagination —
his family won't get cable TV until he's 17.
No video games, either. “If you want something to do,” his
father, Jim, says, “go out and find a ball. Or I'll find something for
you to do.” Story from the
Omaha Paper. (This quote should be in every locker room
across Kansas and given to students at the junior high level on
enrollment.) |
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"I'm going to tell you about the prize. Everybody believes this
(trophy) is the prize. It ain't. The speech is the same, if we had
won or lost. This is not the prize. "You're going to remember this
forever. The prize is reaching for something great, sacrificing for
the people you love. "Pursuit of being a champion is the prize. The
people that are willing to pursue against all obstacles, all the
time. That's the prize. This (trophy) is a piece of wood. Do you
understand me? Something bad could happen to this, I could drop it
on the way in (to the locker room). Do you understand me? Coach Rick
Wheeler of Wichita Heights after winning the 6A state championship
game from the
Wichita Paper.
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The person you are is the person your child will become. |
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Quote by John Wooden |
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| One of the former players
Buller saw this weekend was Derwood Lynch. One year, HHS was preparing
for the game against rival Great Bend, which ran the single wing. Two
lead blockers protected the ball-carrier, and Buller was calling for
volunteers to play defensive end and take on the blockers. Lynch, not the biggest of players, and who seldom played, raised
his hand. At first, Buller thought, "Oh, no." But Lynch volunteered,
and Buller gave him a chance. Lynch played a great game, took on the blockers and HHS won. In the
locker room after the game, Buller still remembers Lynch parading
around, showing off his battered and bloodied body. "He's voted all-conference, and I had him on the bench," Buller
said. "... Derwood Lynch was an eye-opener to me, about how we as
coaches sometimes can overlook a player. We judge them by their
physical makeup; we don't know how to look at their heart.
Hays High Head Football Coach Arlo Buller 1962-1969. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt once said that if he had a son who
refrained from any worthwhile action because of fear of hurt to
himself, he would disown him. Soon after his return to civilian life,
General Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke of the worthwhileness of 'living
dangerously'. An officer of the United States Armed Forces cannot go
far wrong if he holds with these ideas. It is not the suitable
profession for those who believe only in digging-in and nursing a soft
snap until death comes at a ripe old age. Who risks nothing gains
nothing. From the book 'The Armed Forces Officer'. |
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| "We don't care if they are No. 1 in the country.
We're us and we're going to play our best." Jackson Brett starting
center for Shawnee Mission East and son of Hall-of-Famer George Brett. |
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| "That is the best high school football team we have
ever seen or I have ever coached against," Scott Moshier said of
Canadian, Texas who was playing its second game of the season when
Meade came to town. Canadian won 36-6. Story from the
Dodge City Globe. |
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"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who
points out how the strong
man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The
credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
by
dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes
short
again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the
end
the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails
while
daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid
souls who
know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The military calls it the "Eight P's": Proper
prior planning and preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
From the book 'The Unthinkable' who survives when disaster strikes
and why, by Amanda Ripley. |
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| In real life Nero sits on the throne and Paul
languishes in prison and many years must pass before people begin
calling their dogs Nero and their sons Paul, but that time comes. As
God lives that time will always come. |
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| "I am only one, but I am
one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do,
I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall
do." Sign in the locker room at Quinter High school as told in the
story about Coach Woolf. |
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| Eleanor Merritt is the mother of Spring Hill Broncos
senior center Stewart Merritt and has never missed a game since he
started playing football at Spring Hill as a freshman. “I had a really
good time (at the Moms intro to football practice),” she said. “I
learned that it was more difficult than what it looks. They have to
memorize so many plays. Not only is it a brutal sport but they have to
work as a team and memorize so much.” |
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| ''I can
tell you as the new guy that Northeastern Oklahoma loves this
conference, (Southwest Junior College Football Conference), and we
hate Kansas,'' first-year NEO coach Donnie Bigby said. ''We live so
close to Kansas, and we have to listen to stuff from them all the time
but I'll tell you ... they have no clue what football is.'' |
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| "Success often leads to arrogance and arrogance to failure" from the book
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout |
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| "Don't worry about genius and don't worry about not
being clever. Trust rather to hard work, perseverance and
determination. You hold the future in your hands. Never waver in this
belief. Be honest. Be loyal. Be kind. Remember that the hardest thing
to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish. As a quality it is one
of the finest attributes of manliness." From the book The Dangerous
Book for Boys. |
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