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2 Types of Players

28 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A brief motivational monologue distinguishing two kinds of players: those who seek the arena for attention and those who enter to compete. The speaker urges building a team culture that values competition and consistent effort over rankings, streaks, or external recognition, focusing on showing up to 'throw down' each night.

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There's two kind of players.
One of them wants to get into the arena for the attention that it's going to bring him, and the other one wants to get in the arena because he's got a chance to throw down and compete. And hopefully we're getting closer to the team that doesn't care about rankings, doesn't care about the first half of the season, doesn't care about a win streak, doesn't care about anything except we get another chance to get into the arena to throw down, to compete. And if we can just leave it at that, night in and night out, I think they'll be successful. But we can't want to get into the arena for the attention it's going to bring us. We got to be willing to get in the arena because it's an opportunity to compete.