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Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
Protestor : "Release the Epstein files!!!God bless our children!!!"
MAGA : "BOOOOOO!!!"
It really is a natural progression to have the old I ❤️ Newport cigarette billboard in New York replaced by an advertisement for a hospital all these years later.
Sacrifice. That’s what wins championships.
Mike Brown has been to seven NBA Finals with four different organizations.
He’s coached LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, Tim Duncan, Kevin Durant, and Jalen Brunson.
When asked what all championship teams have in common, his answer had nothing to do with those nuclear talents.
“The commonality they all had is they all sacrificed for one another.
They were all connected.
They all had a competitive spirit.
And there was a high level of belief... Not just in the process, but in each other.”
He was able to boil down years of success in different places to 4 common traits:
🩸 Sacrifice
🎮 Connectivity
⚠️ Ownership
✝️ Belief
Championship teams don't win solely because they have the best player.
They create a championship environment from ownership starting with the best player all the way to the last player on the bench.
The entire organization is willing to surrender something for something bigger than themselves.
You need good players, yes...
But talent only determines your ceiling.
Sacrifice determines your capacity to reach it.
Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
Rafael Nadal shares what drove him to practice harder than anyone else.
"All my practices were dedicated to being better. I never approached a single practice without the motivation to improve something. That's the truth."
"Just practicing to be in good shape...that doesn't motivate me much. It's boring."
"What excites me - what gives me that extra motivation - is going on court with the determination to improve something."
Showing up isn't enough. You have to show up with intention.
"Even after one of my favorite matches of my career - I knew in that moment I had plenty of things to improve."
Even at his best - he was looking for what was next.
That's the standard.
That's the mindset.
It's to always be chasing improvement and better.
(🎥 Served with Andy Roddick)
Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
Bill Parcells said, "Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups."
Complaining is not a solution, IT'S A DISTRACTION!
It distracts you from action, gratitude, and positivity.
(@30for30)
Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
Mike Brown shares a simple but powerful definition of winning in life.
"Even if you don't have the quote unquote ultimate success that you think you deserve - if you get knocked down in life and you're able to get back up and keep fighting - that's a fricking win."
"Most of our guys have probably had to go through that. But I think most people in the world have to go through it."
Success isn't always the result - sometimes it's just refusing to stay down.
It's choosing to endure, get back up, and keep fighting.
Successful people are relentless.
(🎥SNY )
Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
Mike Brown describes one of my favorite concepts here with his take on the @nyknicks being "Antifragile".
@nntaleb says "Wind extinguishes a candle 🕯️ but energizes fire.” 🔥
Same composition, but different response to the conditions.
Being Antifragile describes a team that doesn’t merely survive stress, chaos, volatility, or pressure... it actually gets stronger because of it.
Inversely, when organizations eliminate all discomfort, all mistakes, all conflict, and all pressure, they unintentionally create weakness. #EasternConferenceFinals #ECF
Here I argue that USTA should be building regional “College Tennis Centers” and supporting regional community hubs.
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In this piece, I argue that NIL spending be tied to the number of Olympic sports a school sponsors. The more sports sponsored, the more a school can spend in NIL money for football and basketball.
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Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
YOU ONLY PLAY 17% OF THE TIME. ⏰
Look at the table. The 7 matches are from the pointy end of Indian Wells this year.
- You spend 17% of the match playing.
- You spend 83% of the match time talking to yourself.
Improve at talking to yourself. ✅
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Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
1) The fact this angle was not released until days later says everything. How many times do we go into commercial / come out of commercial and get 8 different camera angles of a play only to get the one that is clear as day at the last moment. It’s all a con to make a TV show.
2) All the “the ball came free when it hit the ground / if there was no defender and it just popped free it’s incomplete” is bull. Cooks caught it. He brought it to his body as he hit the ground. He was locked in.
This has never ever been called a pick. The officials were afraid of the home crowd. They blew the call. Then the league threw every foot soldier possible out to try and gaslight the masses.
Jeffrey Menaker retweeted
This would have won Buffalo the game. Instead, the officials swallow their whistles, then gift Denver 2 DPIs in overtime. Consistency is the biggest issue with the officiating. The Bills were flat out screwed.
