Frosty Westering Defines the 3 Types of Best

Wow, just wow. This so resonated with me that I just had to share (especially as I am a woman who LOVES knowing that I have no idea where "my line" is. I just know I haven't done all I can YET.

Enjoy!

"The question is, doesn't everyone want to be number one? Well, we all want to win, but it depends on how we define winning, and how we understand the joy of competing, without the fear of failure. Defining what best is, is a key thing. Society says we won four national championships but we also lost four; but the ones that we lost were great games, just terrific games. What I've done is try to take the three definitions of best and lay them out in a way that our guys understand it."

"First is being THE best. That's what everyone talks about. Being the NBA champion. When you win it, you're everything; when you don't, you go home a loser. I don't believe that at all, but that's something you've got to challenge. Being the best is a by-product of other things."

"The second definition is being YOUR best. Well, how do you know what your best really is? I think that's really the key in coaching - to try to help a person reach his or her potential, whatever that is. So, you ask, "How do you measure potential?" There's all these fitness tests that they run - speed, agility, things at the combine - but there's another one, the inner game, the inside test, which is even greater than these."

(Note: The combine is a week-long showcase for prospective NFL football players to be evaluated by NFL teams).

"[In football] you gotta be able to run, you gotta be able to hit and do all these other things, but the bottom line is, those are not what really make the difference. Parents tell their kids to do their best, but so many times we aren't our best. We try hard, but we're not our best. So, we have to figure out another way that you can deal with competing, and again understanding that we may not be the best, we may not be our best, but we can accomplish one thing, and that's the third definition ... which is your best shot."

"Your BEST SHOT is just preparing to do what you've gotta do and going out and loving doing it, even if you aren't doing very well. You love doing it because you've worked hard, and you understand that that's what makes you better. And when you do that often enough, even when you're not doing it very well, and you're surrounded by others that believe that, you start bringing out the best in each other. That's what I call the double win."

The double win is bringing out the best in teammates and yourself. When you do that, even though you're not your best, they help you bring that out, because on a given day, you never know who it is that's gonna be right there. You learn to give it this best shot in everything you do, even when it isn't very good. So, then you take a look at how that relates to being the best. By giving it your best shot all the time and loving to compete, you start doing your best more of the time, and you become the best more often."

Frosty Westering, Pacific Lutheran University football coach, four-time national champion.

SO LET'S HERE THOSE WINS, MY FRIENDS.

I CANNOT WAIT TO CHEER YOU ON!

4 comments