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 repeated.

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Today we're continuing in our series pitfalls to avoid in ways to get past them.

We recently had an opportunity to poll coaches and ask them their opinion on what are the things that frustrate you that your players do?

And I think as players, we have a responsibility.

We want to have a good working relationship and a healthy relationship with our coaches.

So it's important for us to recognize and be sensitive.

What are the things that frustrate and annoy to some degree our coaches and be sensitive to trying to work past that and get through that.

So today we're going to be talking about treating road trips like field trips.

This popped up a couple times on the poll.

Treating road trips like field trips.

You get on the bus, you're headed out to the road game, and there is just this

loose, casual, laissez-faire, laid-back, relaxed attitude, and everyone's laughing and joking.

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