Coe Courier Article

Believe the article can be found on page 8

Coe Courier Fall 2014

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"For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality. And that’s what these players did and that’s why they’re champions." -- Bill Belichick

2015 Uniform Release!

Thanks to Mark for designing!

Newscast with Emmie

Skip to the 4:40 mark of the 11/19 sportscast:

http://www.fox28iowa.com/news/features/featured/stories/sportscast-november-19-2014-905.shtml

Conditioning

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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.  

~Rafael Nadal

Thursday Throwback

Circa 2004

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"If you are not making mistakes then you are not doing anything. I am positive a doer makes mistakes."

John Wooden

 “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

Vince Lombardi

 "Competitiveness is the opposite of complacency. It’s disquieting and uncomfortable. It requires commitment, and risk, and soul-searching. When you choose to compete, you take a huge gamble. You might lose."

Pat Summitt

S&C

Part of the Coach Klaas S&C line-up.  The team couldn't figure out whether Justin was working harder to push outward, or Brady trying to stop him from doing so.

Throwback Thursday-Fall 1992? 1993?

"A player should be modest. Without humility they cannot become a good player, because they won’t be able to stand the anxiety and suffering of a hard match.” - Pato Alvarez

Monday Motivation (on Tuesday)

I received this email from Brian Cain this morning......

Which are you - a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? 

A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Sound familiar?

Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her granddaughter, she asked, “Tell me, what do you see?”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” the young woman replied.

The grandmother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they had gotten soft.

Grandma then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.

Finally, the grandmother asked her to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma. Then she asked. “What’s the point, Grandma?”

Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity–boiling water–but each reacted differently.

The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting.  However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.  The egg had been fragile.  Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior.  But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however.  After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

"Which are you?" she asked her granddaughter.  

“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”

So, WHICH ARE YOU?

Are you the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?

Are you the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did you once have a fluid spirit but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, you have become hardened and stiff?

Does your shell look the same, but on the inside you are bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?

Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.

When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you start to elevate your focus, your self-talk and your performance to another level?