Parents: Let your kids control their sports journey. Stop yelling at them. Stop coaching from the stands. Stop making them watch tape with you. Let their coaches coach, and you be mom or dad. You aren’t going to change their destiny by what you say. ~ via @DavidPollack47

Empathy is essential for connection, repair, and social progress. But like any tool, it can be misused when it's disconnected from responsibility, used as a shield from consequences or weaponized to silence or control others

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Coaching an athlete holistically is something experienced coaches learn. I’ve made the mistake of treating a 14 year old kid differently because they had a 17 year old body.

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Sometimes you need something that forces you to slow down. Shooting his bow became the one place he could fully disconnect—no noise, no distractions, just focus. 📷📷 ⁠ Catch the full episode of With All Due Respect on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

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I cannot help you if you don’t do the work.

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“Be capable.” Pushing past pain. Rediscovering who you are. When your body works again, your mind follows. This is what it means to come back to life. Listen to With All Due Respect on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube

and 1 in 4 quit after freshman year

Do you need any more reasons to lift weights?

Every player on a team can make a positive impact, no matter how much playing time they get. If they work hard and put the team first, they are valuable contributors to their team's success.

!!!!!!!!!!!!! Specialized athletes are the lesser athlete.

“Jordan was not smiling. Kobe was not smiling. Tiger was not smiling. They were not trying to make friends. They were trying to kill you. I respected Peyton Manning more than anyone but I had dinner with him maybe twice in 23 years. You cannot dominate the competition and hang

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