We are going to win!

I'm reading a book on the University of Miami Hurricane's football program called "Cane Mutiny."

I am on chapter 2 and probably will remain on that chapter for a long time because it takes me awhile to read for pleasure when I am in classes. In the last chapter I read about Howard Schnellenberger the first coach to lead the Hurricanes to a National Championship. He was the man who rebuilt the Cane program, a program that was almost cut from the school.

In the chapter it talks about how Schnellenberger said "We are going to win a National Championship." I swear that every book I read that talks about accomplishing something great involves a place and moment where a person said that they were going to accomplish something.

Two things about this. I think people say things like this all the time. "We are going to win a Championship." We only read about and reminisce about it when that saying becomes true. The account of who said, and when and where it was said becomes stuff of legends. I bet every coach says it.

People always say things but they often do nothing to back up what they say. That to me is what is the most important thing. If you say something you need to back it up so that what your saying will come true. Some people say they are going to change but then when you ask them how they are changing they can give you no answer. "I'm going to get in better shape." Great, how are you doing that? "I don't know."

You can achieve great things by saying nothing and just doing things. You can become legendary if you say things and actually back it up.