Courage

In football everybody that plays needs to have the thing called courage, as told by Brian Billick in his book Competitive Leadership 12 Principals Of Success states " Courage is the personal strength that enables a player to handle fear, make difficult decisions, take risks, confront change , accept responsibility, and self-reliant. In other words courage is the trait that empowers  you to be yourself." (Pg. 208)

     

I relate to this by how this season I have been moved around 5 different positions on the offensive line and every time I had to learn to play that position but once in a while I would not know what to do but I needed to still block for the running back/QB so I had to just make a decision to block the closest person and sometimes I would chose right guy and then we would pick up a big gain of yards but other times  I would chose wrong guy and let an opportunity not happen for our team, even though my choices wont be 100% good one's the success comes from whether or not I am able to take responsibility and not to fear the choices I made because even though I might not get the play right there is always going to be the next one.

For those that play football, how does this meaning of courage effect your playing? 

Posted 7:55:00 December 31st

Citation: Billick, Brian. Competitive Leadership Twelve Prinicples For Success. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.