In my opinion, no one, and I mean no one, is currently a better speaker on the subject of leadership than former coach and current Fox Sports analyst Urban Meyer. Coach Meyer communicates complex ideas on personal growth, team building, individual and group performance, sacrifice, leadership development, and coaching in the most passionate and concise manner of anyone I am hearing.
Don’t believe me, then watch the following video of Coach Meyer speaking on the subject of developing a competitive spirit on this morning’s Big Noon Kickoff show.
This segment is a masterclass on human development.
“The Edge is where average stops and elite begins.”@CoachUrbanMeyer dives into the competitive spirit and how it can turn a good player into a great player on Urban’s Playbook 📝 #BigNoonKickoff pic.twitter.com/4zmOCb1NH1
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) December 5, 2020
The following are 17 Statements On Competitive Spirit From Urban Meyer I captured from the video:
- “In college football, the student-athletes are only allowed 20 hour work weeks with coaches. If you work 20 hours per week, you’re probably a really bad college football player. It takes much more than that.”
- “I created this room called The Edge and that’s your place to go and get better.”
- “The Edge is where average stops and elite begins.”
- “Tell me in practice 16 if you have that energy. You know why? That’s when your body and mind start to say, ‘That’s enough.'”
- “Development is all about growth. Your body starts to grow when, when your body says, ‘No more.’ That’s when things start to happen. Teams become great. Players become great when you get to The Edge.”
- “I made Utah competitive… Everything became competitive.”
- “Everything became win or lose in the off-season. I wanted to teach them to be competitors.”
- “How did they learn to become first rounders? Because they learned to go hard.”
- “Coaches and players were involved in these win or lose days.”
- “Growth happens when you get them to The Edge.”
- “After practice, the winners get to drink nice Gatorades. The losers drink out of a water hose.”
- “Mike Thomas was actually not a good receiver… But every time we put him in win or loser drills he started winning all the time… He became the ultimate competitor.”
- “When you get a player to The Edge, there’s barriers – laziness, selfishness, fatigue. You know what the coach’s job is? Coach them through that.”
Results Of Constant Competition
- Teaches Competitiveness
- Promotes Leadership and Culture – “When you get to The Edge leaders step up.”
- Identifies Elite Competitors – “I do not want to find out who my best competitors are on game day,”
- Exposes Non-Competitors – “The one thing elite competitors do is they might run out of time, but they never lose.”
Does your organization have a competitive spirit? If not, perhaps you need to create a space and system where your team is taken to The Edge. Because as Coach Meyer said, “Growth happens when you get them to The Edge.” To learn how to take people to The Edge, download the following resource:
During the 2019 college football season, fans were given a gift when legendary coach Urban Meyer joined Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff preview show as a studio analyst. As a three-time national championship head coach, Coach Meyer’s ability to deliver complex leadership principles with brevity and concise terminology created a compelling experience for educated and “smart” fans. Throughout the season, I captured Coach Meyer’s best leadership quotes from this weekly show. I wanted to make them available to you in this new complimentary resource Urban Meyer 2019 Fox Sports Big Noon Kickoff Ebook.
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