And just one unchanging answer. IN IT TO WIN IT!
I field a lot of questions about Team Nebraska. What we are, who we are, why we are, where we are, how we are. IN IT TO WIN IT!
It doesn’t matter what you hear on the streets, there’s a lot of talk that originates from nowhere and leads to nowhere. You need only remember this: IN IT TO WIN IT!
I will continue to drill this into our Team Nebraska mates. Its the first and last thing I tell them about the club during interviews. Those agreeing with that mindset make it on to the club. IN IT TO WIN IT!
This will never change as long as I’m the Executive Director and Head Coach for the club.
A nice excerpt from a book I just completed. While it references basketball the message is just as clear for runners.
“One. The Head. Strategy. Most boys come to a basketball coach from alley games and have no conception of the, of the elegance of the game played on a court with two baskets…. Second- let me finish, Harry, and then you can talk- second the body. Work the boys into condition. Make their legs hard.” He clenches his fist on the slick table. “Hard. Run, run, run. Run every minute their feet are on the floor. You can’t run enough, Thirdly”- he puts the index finger and thumb of one hand to the corners of his mouth and flicks away the moisture- “the heart. And here the good coach, which I, young lady, certainly tried to be and some say was, has his most solemn opportunity. Give the boys the will to achieve. I’ve always liked that better than the will to win, for there can be achievement even in defeat. Make them feel the- yes, I think the word is good- the sacredness of achievement, in the form of giving our best.” He dares a pause now, and wins through it, glancing at each of them in turn to freeze their tongues. “A boy who has had his heart enlarged by an inspiring coach,” he concludes, “can never become, in the deepest sense, a failure in the greater game of life.” from “Rabbit Run” by John Updike, 1960
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