Three Secrets Every Champion Shares About Winning

Winning is not only draped in terms like “don’t quit” or “never give up.”

winning the national championship
Winning catch in overtime at the 2018 CFP National Championship Game/NY Daily News

Whether it’s the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2018 CFP National Championship Game or the Highland Park Scots in 2017, winners have three quirks that stand out from the others!

Starting again winning again
Recovering onside kick with 2:05 left in the 2017 state championship game/Hill Country News

Most of us are slogging through the mud, weeds and rocks of everyday life.

We are not under bright lights with the media panting for post-game interviews.

So, we are thrilled when we see 3 winning habits percolating in championship teams.

Never stop starting

This is different from “don’t quit” or “never give up.”

“Never stop starting” takes more mojo because you have to overcome inertia!

winning must overcome inertia
Sleepy sloth/Kit Korzun/shutterstock

A winner sees the next moment, next hour or next day as a start.

Never stop starting!

Eject grudges

Alabama’s placekicker, Andy Pappanastos, missed a 36 yard field goal as time ran out in the 2018 CFP National Championship game.

Shortly after, freshman relief quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was hammered behind the line for a big loss to start the Alabama drive in overtime.

Next play he throws the game winning touchdown pass!

Best looking game winner since Doug Flutie in 1984.

Doesn’t happen if the team is blowing each other up over earlier setbacks!

Encourage one another

Highland Park Scots’ quarterback, John Stephen Jones, was sacked eight times, hurried and brutalized by the college scholarship laden Manvel defense.

But, he summarized his late game heroics neatly.

“Heads were still up, in all honesty my head was getting a little down, but my team kept me up, everybody kept saying, ‘Hey, we have a chance, we still have a chance. The clock hasn’t zero yet. And they showed it out there on the field.’”  John Stephen Jones

Long Distance Winning: A special formula

My daughter’s 2002 Highland Park Lady Scots cross country team used a special formula to win a state championship in mud, weeds and rocks.

Champions winning in mud
Long distance winning means long distance teamwork.

Isn’t that where most of life’s championships are won?

Three Secrets Every Champion Shares About Winning

6 thoughts on “Three Secrets Every Champion Shares About Winning

  1. Joe Bland says:

    Interesting that both quarterbacks were 19 year old freshman who both proclaim Christ as their savior. Wish our media would expand on the truth behind their success

  2. I thoroughly enjoyed the freshman quarterback from Alabama giving all the glory to his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. How refreshing to know that God is still working in this country and is using a national platform that literally millions of people saw on Monday night.

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