The Costs of Leadership: Kirby Smart 1. You will make hard decisions that negatively affect people. 2. You will be disliked despite your best attempts to do the best for the most. 3. You will be misunderstood & won't have the chance to defend yourself.

#TheChampionsMind 🏆 #Commitment

You can’t want the result without the responsibility. The real ones know they must remain committed to the cause.

Sports will help build your character, but they’ll also expose it. Everyone sees how you handle success, failure, pressure & adversity. The points, medals, highlights & accolades disappear. But the kind of teammate you were? That’s what people remember. That’s who you really are.

The older I get the more I understand why it’s important to work with people you trust and enjoy being around.

Empty the tank. Don’t hold back. Don’t pace yourself. When the game ends, you should be spent: physically and mentally. Preparation fills the tank. Competition empties it.

Basketball is not an equal opportunity sport.

Behind every state championship banner is a group of kids who learned that mediocrity doesn’t cut it, accountability is earned, and success is shared. Winning is just the byproduct.

Fort Bend ISD pending board approval will name Duncanville athletic director Derick Roberson as the next Executive Athletic Director of FBISD Congrats Coach Rob!! #txhsfb

PARENTS: If you only cheer for your child during an athletic event, don't be surprised if others do the same and before you know it there is an atmosphere of selfishness and entitlement surrounding with your child's team.

Every team does the what. The difference is always in the how.

Say it with me now. A coach holding you to a standard is not being mean.

Incredible take from Charles Barkley on Tom Izzo: "The media, who don't know anything about sports, say 'Why is he yelling his players?' That's called coaching... if parents & friends get mad because you're getting yelled at, get better parents & better friends."

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable. Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average. If

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥 You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts. Hard is the lesson. Watch. Share. Bookmark.

UCLA WBB just showed what happens when you trust the process and buy in. Those seniors stayed. They chose hard. They trusted their coach and they trusted each other. UCLA was a player led team, because Cori Close prepared them to be one. Absolutely incredible!!

Area champs! Who wouldn’t want to be a bulldog?! 💙🧡🐶

A high school basketball team doesn't win championships in March, it wins them in July, in empty gyms, with no crowds and no hype. The work you do when no one's watching is what shows up under the bright lights.

I'm convinced Duke Women’s Basketball Coach Kara Lawson is one of the best leaders in sports. This clip on urgency, growth not being linear, and the idea that there is no finish line is superb: 🥱 Need It > Want It. The people who win aren’t always the most gifted, they’re the ones who refuse