A Lesson From The Coach (I).
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Picture this. The beginning of football season. The coach holds up a familiar object and says "Gentlemen, THIS is a football." Such a basic approach might suggest that the team consisted of either very Young players--or rank beginners-- and that the coach was a third-grade teacher drafted to teach Pee-Wee Players the basics.
Would you believe the coach was Vince Lombardi? And the players were experienced, winning athletes, chosen for their proven outstanding abilities? Hard to believe, isn't it?
Surely players of that caliber could recognize a football!
But the coach believed that the key to success wasn't in advanced strategies or even dazzling plays--the key to success was--and still is--the Basics.
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