Summer Soccer League
Players are strongly encouraged to participate in soccer camps, strength training regimens, and summer soccer leagues.
Players should at least complete and document the "100,000 Touch Challenge" TWICE during the summer months. In addition, players should commit to running a minimum of ten miles per week.
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Some thoughts . . . UPDATED: JULY 2015
Summer is ALMOST Over! Fall is JUST ABOUT here!
What are you doing NOW to get yourself ready for February?
Some are in a Fall league with a competitive team. Some are your team mates, many more are your future opponents. They are preparing to beat you.
Are you running? Someone else IS running more than you, further than you, faster than you. They want you to kiss their butt, but won't even let you get close enough.
Are you weight lifting? Someone else is lifting more weight with more repetitions than you.
Are you ball training? Someone else juggles 500 times a day, performs 100 change of direction drills, and completes 1,000 wall kicks.
Are you preparing your mind to win? Jersey's record is 14-54-4 for the past four years. Winning starts with a mental approach that refuses to be content with anything less than your best.
What is that mental approach? Read these. . .
Winning Quotes
"Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about."
-Tom Chappel
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."
Zig Ziglar
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
Denis Waitley
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." Bertie C. Forbes
"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top." D.A. Benton
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." Muhammad Ali
"Never let defeat have the last word." Tibetan Proverb
"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi
"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." Anonymous
"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." Vince Lombardi
"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything." Vince Lombardi
"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." Jan McKeithen
"You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win."
Vince Lombardi
"You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time." Vince Lombardi
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." Vince Lombardi
"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." Napoleon Hill
Some are in a Fall league with a competitive team. Some are your team mates, many more are your future opponents. They are preparing to beat you.
Are you running? Someone else IS running more than you, further than you, faster than you. They want you to kiss their butt, but won't even let you get close enough.
Are you weight lifting? Someone else is lifting more weight with more repetitions than you.
Are you ball training? Someone else juggles 500 times a day, performs 100 change of direction drills, and completes 1,000 wall kicks.
Are you preparing your mind to win? Jersey's record is 14-54-4 for the past four years. Winning starts with a mental approach that refuses to be content with anything less than your best.
What is that mental approach? Read these. . .
Winning Quotes
"Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about."
-Tom Chappel
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."
Zig Ziglar
"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
Denis Waitley
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." Bertie C. Forbes
"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top." D.A. Benton
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." Muhammad Ali
"Never let defeat have the last word." Tibetan Proverb
"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi
"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." Anonymous
"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." Vince Lombardi
"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything." Vince Lombardi
"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." Jan McKeithen
"You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win."
Vince Lombardi
"You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time." Vince Lombardi
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." Vince Lombardi
"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." Napoleon Hill
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