415 | Coach Gaines: “Being Perfect is About Being Able to Look Your Friends in the Eye and Know that You Didn't Let Them Down, Because You Told Them the Truth."
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Today’s clip comes from Coach Gaines from Friday Night Lights, who reveals to his team what it really means to be perfect. You can find today’s full clip here.
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| 0:00.0 | Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down |
| 0:07.2 | because you told them the truth and |
| 0:09.8 | That is a quote of the day |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm movie we |
| 0:43.1 | Continues with a scene from Friday night lights. This is Coach Gaines played by Billy Bob Thornton talking about what it really means to be perfect. Here's the coach |
| 0:54.4 | It was real simple. You got two more quarters and that's it. |
| 1:04.0 | Now most of you have been playing this game for ten years. |
| 1:08.2 | You got two more quarters and after that most of you will never play this game again as long as you live. |
| 1:14.4 | And you all have known me for a while and for a long time now you've been here and we talk about being perfect. |
| 1:20.4 | I want you to understand something. |
| 1:23.4 | To me being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. |
| 1:31.4 | It's not about winning. |
| 1:35.4 | It's about you and your relationship to yourself and your family and your friends. |
| 1:41.4 | Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know |
| 1:50.4 | That you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. |
| 1:56.4 | And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn't one more thing that you could have done. |
| 2:02.4 | Can you live in that moment as best you can with clear eyes and love in your heart? |
| 2:13.4 | With joy in your heart. |
| 2:16.4 | If you can do that gentlemen, then you're perfect. |
| 2:25.4 | I want you to take a moment and I want you to look each other in the eyes. |
| 2:36.4 | I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen here in just a few minutes. |
| 2:46.4 | I want you to close your eyes. |
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