Me and Conard went to see this Friday night. We loved, loved, LOVED it! I never knew what a brave and inspiring woman Penny Chenery Tweedy was. Go see it... take the kids, too. You'll love it!
Showing posts with label Secretariat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secretariat. Show all posts
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Gator Basketball
I thought the NE Patriot/Secretariat angle in this article was pretty cool. Bill Belichick spreading the love!
Gators use Secretariat as motivation to defend NCAA basketball title
If the Florida Gators win their second straight NCAA basketball title, they can thank New England Patriots football coach Bill Belichick and Secretariat.
According to a story in the Florida Times-Union, University of Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan asked Belichick to speak to his team in Gainesville earlier this month to keep the squad motivated for a possible run through the NCAA basketball tournament.
Belichick showed the team a film of Secretariat.
“At the beginning of the race, it's all close," forward Joakim Noah told the Times-Union. "Toward the end of the race, he wins the race by like a quarter of a mile. It was just like an unbelievable race, and he [Belichick] was just saying, 'Never looking back.' And that's going to be our motto."
Donovan, who also has had St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa and former NBA star Jerry West among others speak to his team, said the lectures are a tool to make sure the players do not become content with what they already have achieved.
“There's a human element all these guys have where you can have a level of complacency or being unmotivated or overconfident," Donovan told the newspaper. “You've got to guard against those things. There's a way—motivation or inspiring—to bring them back into the truth, to try to get them to handle those things.”
I thought the NE Patriot/Secretariat angle in this article was pretty cool. Bill Belichick spreading the love!
Gators use Secretariat as motivation to defend NCAA basketball title
If the Florida Gators win their second straight NCAA basketball title, they can thank New England Patriots football coach Bill Belichick and Secretariat.
According to a story in the Florida Times-Union, University of Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan asked Belichick to speak to his team in Gainesville earlier this month to keep the squad motivated for a possible run through the NCAA basketball tournament.
Belichick showed the team a film of Secretariat.
“At the beginning of the race, it's all close," forward Joakim Noah told the Times-Union. "Toward the end of the race, he wins the race by like a quarter of a mile. It was just like an unbelievable race, and he [Belichick] was just saying, 'Never looking back.' And that's going to be our motto."
Donovan, who also has had St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa and former NBA star Jerry West among others speak to his team, said the lectures are a tool to make sure the players do not become content with what they already have achieved.
“There's a human element all these guys have where you can have a level of complacency or being unmotivated or overconfident," Donovan told the newspaper. “You've got to guard against those things. There's a way—motivation or inspiring—to bring them back into the truth, to try to get them to handle those things.”
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