I have not blogged as often lately due to my distraction from the political landscape and my position as a head basketball coach which is time consuming and more fatiguing than I thought it would be.
I have read some interesting books of late though. One of these includes: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. The title is a bit misleading until you read the book. It is one of my favorite. I put off reading it due to the cover and title for a couple years. This proves don't judge a book by its cover. I"m reading a book about one of my favorite world leaders ever- Winston Churchill. I'm also reading a book full of letters written by our nation's founding fathers to their wives and friends. Its interesting being in the minds of some of the greatest people in our nation's history. If we all could read their letter we would all be better people and better writers.
I just read and deleted some "notes" that I had written a couple years ago on facebook when I first started the "blog" thing. I look back and realize how little I knew then, although I thought I knew a lot. I now know a lot. But I will only be successful if I can look back in a few years and read my current blog and realize I did not know a lot. (think about it).
The hardest thing to do is teach kids something that they don't learn as quickly as you learned it. We tend to judge people by our own achievements and strengths. If we judged people with our weaknesses in mind, oh how much we would love one another.
I thought John Wooden was wrong when he said he never spoke about winning and losing and only playing your best and if you do that then your always a winner. I always valued winning over everything. I hate losing. But so did John Wooden. He just viewed it from a different perspective. I coach a boys basketball team that has played about 10 games against teams that have starting lineups that average a combined 25 inches and 150 pounds in size advantage. That is like Bryan College against Duke every game. We have only played 2 games that our team could have a legit chance of winning if we had played our best. I now understand why John Wooden viewed it they way he did.
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Jess, I do agree with you and John Woodlin. I hate loosing, win I play a Game of Nascar And if I loose I'm very mad. I want to go out there and win. Tim Tebow probely felt the smae way in the SEC championship game. I really don't thank there is anything wrong about crying on the sideline after a loss, but there are people I have hear at school call him crybaby. If they call him a crybaby then they should call me one to becouse I cried after winning homecoming. I've cried becouse Jr may had a bad race, or Tebow crying. Do you think there is any thing wrong with crying? Kenny Keller
No Kenny I don't think there is anything wrong with crying. As Jimmy V said everyone should spend time in thought, in laughter, and have your emotions moved to tears each and every day. But just don't cry when you lose at a video game of Nascar. That could be a bit far. lol..
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