Be Great

Every day you should make an effort to be great.  This doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be the best every day but be great for you.  There are times when your best still isn't good enough for everyone else but it shouldn't matter as long as you were great for you.

I'll take the comparison to sports.  There are times when coaches realize quickly that their teams are overmatched but they compete to their best of their abilities during a game.  You can't fault the effort but the other team is simply better.  Your team was great that day even though the team didn't win the game.  I know every one wants more but sometimes that isn't realistic.

There are times when a team seems overmatched athletically and talent wise yet, figures out a way.  A great example is when Villanova beat Georgetown in the 1985 National Championship Game.  Villanova was great that day and essentially forced a dominant Georgetown team.  Another example is Princeton upsetting defending National Champion UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.  And we can't forget about Boise State beating heavily favored Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

There are also other times when your team is great yet the team falls just short.  Perfect examples of this are:

UCLA over Missouri.  Missouri played great that day but UCLA had an answer and here it is.



Florida's Mike Miller makes a tough buzzer beater to take down Butler.  This was our first true introduction to Butler



There are also times when a team is great for a half and then can't hang on during the second half.  A good example of that is West Virginia during their Elite 8 game vs. Louisville when it seemed like they couldn't miss in the first half. The below video is the whole game.  You don't have to watch the whole thing but it's interesting to see WVU be great in the first half and then Louisville be great in the second.



Whatever you do, be great for you.  Things tend to work out for people that try to be great every day.