If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be,

I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals achievements.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the drive with the guys that I've been around

and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

So that which gets praised gets with beautiful.

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I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen.

Today, T.J., we're going to be talking about powerful word switches.

Sometimes simply switching out one word with something else can have a dramatic effect.

I think one thing as coaches, we need to always be reminded of that every word we say matters.

And we need to be conscious of that.

And, you know, if you don't believe that, just think about your life, right?

You know, maybe someone at some point said something to you.

Maybe you were a young athlete and a coach communicated something to you.

And that phrase or those series of words that that coach communicated to you stuck with you for years, right?

You were never able to shake it.

Words had that much power that sometimes things that we say as coaches, players they will hold on to it and that's

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