Birthday parties, family trips and dinners, shopping trips, haircuts, etc. result in participants missing practices and off-season activities regularly. Championship teams are characteristically void of the same less productive habits. It is also about the state of one s mind. I tell my players commitment to team no egos and no attitudes leave those in the locker room. That goes for coaches egos and attitudes as well.
Nothing can be more divisive to a team.
As I tell my players, you have got to love it . If you do not get a buzz standing on the field in front of the home fans or facing a hostile opponent on their field you are in the wrong place. Players and winners enjoy it most when the winning is easy and can occasionally dig down and find the physical reserve to step it up. Champions play with an emotional high that fuels their physical demands and enables them to play effortlessly . Champions like the challenge of a battle to the end and they have the ability to come from behind - although they rarely have to.