“Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.” WayWellsLongMightYoungChallengesLinesQualityCreativePlayerSacrificeLessonsComfortableAreasRemainsConstantBottomForgottenInternationalAppreciationValuableImprovementPhrasesWorth ItInnovativeBottom LineBetter WaysRugbyUndertakingsChallenge YourselfValuable LessonsConstant ImprovementContinual Improvement Author:Nick Farr-Jones
“Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.” MeanSpiritPlayerSacrificeTeamWillingBasketballWelfareCoachingConsiderationNbaTeam SpiritTeam Player Author:John Wooden
“Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.” GamesSportsResultsPlayerSacrificeTeamBuildingBasketballTeam BuildingUnselfishUnselfish Acts Author:Dean Smith
“A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.” IfsWantMotivationalNightMorningPlayerSacrificeBasketballLateNbaGymGoing OutBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballEarly MorningLate NightNba PlayerBasketball TrainingAwesome Basketball Author:Jason Kidd
“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.” ImportantPlayerSacrificeMaterialsElementsChessCompensationChess Players Author:Boris Spassky
“There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” IfsThinkingInspirationalBelieveEndsCareGamesWinningIndividualI BelieveSportsDifficultGoalGreaterPlayerOne ThingSacrificeTeamAchieveTalentWillingBasketballTake CarePlentyTitlesNbaTeamworkChampionshipFunny ThingsBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball MotivationGreater GoodNba ChampionshipsTeam PlayerGood BasketballNba PlayerAccoladesBasketball TeamworkBasketball WinningWinning BasketballChampionship TeamIndividual Goals Author:Michael Jordan
“The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.” PeopleBelieveMadeSelfCountryKidsFightingParentLeadershipLinesTeachAudiencePlayerSacrificeAchieveFootballTaughtCommunicationDisciplineLessonsDrugBasketballMajorityPopulationWideCoachesThese DaysCoachingReliefNbaTeamworkSelf DisciplineAddictCaptivesDrug AddictCrooksFootball Coach Author:Bear Bryant
“On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.” IfsDoeMatterPlayHelpingShowsAbleTogetherWinningAbilityNumbersPlayerSacrificeTeamFitBasketballAthleteMotivational SportsStatisticsSalarySuperstarGood Team Author:Red Holzman
“Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.” PeopleLongTodayYoungNationsGrowsResponsibilityGreaterPlayerSacrificeTeamMilitaryPositionWillingShapesLong TimeAssumingCourageousMarvelousMarineTeam Player Author:James T. Conway
“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.” LoveMayPlayGamesPiecesPlayerSacrificeOffersWeaponsMathematicsMathChessMathematicalAdsMathematicianFinestPawnsMath And ScienceChess PlayersMath EducationMathematics By MathematiciansEuclidMath LoveMath And LoveGambit Book:A Mathematician's Apology Source: A Mathematician's Apology