Daily Mood Quote
Day 118 – August 29, 2011
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
~Vince Lombardi
I love American football, the NFL, in my opinion it is one of the greatest team sports, because it requires every one on the team to work together to achieve an end goal, hopefully a win. I watched my favorite team play a game yesterday (preseason) and was pleasantly surprised at how well they worked together, like a well oiled machine. It was something that seemed to be missing in the first two preseason games. Maybe this year, maybe this year...another Super Bowl run...we'll see.
Much like football, life requires people to work together, Vince Lombardi also said, “Football is like life it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” I wish I could say I have seen a lot of that. Even in work place teams, I have found difficulties between co-workers because of differing opinions, agenda, self-interests, beliefs and backgrounds. Often the project suffers because of the inability to put differences aside and work together to achieve a common end goal. Maybe this is why I enjoy football so much. It doesn't matter where you came from, how tall or short you are, color of your skin, or your family history; if you can run (fast), throw, catch, kick, and understand teamwork, you will have game time. Everyone on a team has different skills, those skills make-up the team. It takes variety and diversity to be successful, so to in life endeavors. One person can't win the game all by themselves, even though many may try.
I said it before and I'll say it again, “Life is a team sport,” people around you count. So surround yourself with quality people. Quality meaning, people you can trust, you can depend on, who can depend on you (it is a two way street). Much like a quarterback and a receiver, when you work together and apply your skills, success is inevitable, or in the case of football, plus six on the board. Yeah Team.
In the movie The Blind Side, a story about the life of Michael Oher, an outside tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, Leigh Anne Touhy (played by Sandra Bullock) said, “Now, y'all would guess that more often than not, the highest paid player on an NFL team is the quarterback. And you'd be right. But what you probably don't know is that more often than not, the second highest paid player is, thanks to Lawrence Taylor, a left tackle. Because, as every housewife knows, the first check you write is for the mortgage, but the second is for the insurance. The left tackle's job is to protect the quarterback from what he can't see coming. To protect his blind side.” Teamwork, plain and simple, or you get crushed. The world is full of “LT's” with one thing on their mind...get the ball from you... and without teamwork, well your pretty much “duck-soup” as they say. The point is, “life is a team sport” and we all are the quarterbacks, the receivers, the tackles and occasionally the punters. Its up to us to play our positions in the spirit of cooperation: “win-win” beats “win” by 100%.
How will you apply teamwork principles today?
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