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1. Wish Your Best Athlete Was Also Your Best Leader?
   Frustrated because your Best Athlete is not the leader you would like and NEED him/her to be? Discover how to help your best athletes become your best leaders. . . . keep reading
   
   
2. Winners vs. Losers
   Looking to light a fire within your athletes? Check out this motivational quote on the differences between Winners and Losers. . . . keep reading
   
   
3. The Value of Time
   How can you get your teammates to realize the importance of taking advantage of each day, practice, and repetition? If this poem doesn't help tremendously, I don't know what will. . . . keep reading
   
   
4. 8 Tips to Prepare Your Team to Peak in the Postseason
   Want to help your team peak in the posteseason? Here are eight sure-fire strategies to ensure that your team is inspired, confident, and focused come "winning" time. . . . keep reading
   
   
5. Who Am I?
   See if you and your teammates can figure out who has such a bearing on your success and failure - and then get him/her on your side. . . . keep reading
   
   
6. 212 Degrees of Motivation
   Here's a link to a great mini-movie that is sure to inspire your athletes to turn up the heat! . . . keep reading
   
   
7. Motivational Movies to Inspire Your Team
   Looking for just the right movie to inspire your team? Here's a fantastic site called the Sport Psychology Movie Database, which lists dozens of great movies that you can use to motivate your team. . . . keep reading
   
   
8. What is a Workout?
   Looking to motivate your teammates to get the most out of training? Here's a great poem that is sure to inspire your teammates. . . . keep reading
   
   
9. Dorrance's Dynasty
   While most coaches desperately seek to win just one championship, imagine winning 19! Learn what it takes to create competitors and build a dynasty from a new book on UNC women's soccer coach Anson Dorrance called The Man Watching. . . . keep reading
   
   
10. THE MIDAS TOUCH - How You Can Transform Your Team From Moribund to Magnificent Like Brenda Frese Did at Maryland
    Looking to quickly transform your program into a national champion in a short period of time? Discover how Coach Brenda Frese transformed a moribund program into a national champion in just four short years in Overtime is Our Time . . . keep reading
    
    
11. How do I maintain my teammates' motivation in the off season?
    Worried your teammates might not stay as committed and work as hard during the off season? Use these innovative ideas to keep your teammates motivated during the down times of summer and holiday breaks. . . . keep reading
    
    
12. 360 Team Leadership Evaluation: Most Powerful Leadership Development Tool is Now Available
    Develop Your Leaders with Our New Online 360 Team Leadership Evaluation Looking to better develop your team leaders with the most powerful leadersh . . . keep reading
    
    
13. HOW TO CREATE WEST POINT WARRIORS: Mental Toughness on the Playing Fields and Battlefields
    Wonder what the U.S. Military Academy does to prepare their cadets to lead and stay mentally tough under the life and death stress of combat conditions? Here's a rare glimpse into some of the elite mental training techniques used at the Army's Center for Enhanced Performance - as well as how you can adapt these high tech ideas with your own team. . . . keep reading
    
    
14. Help Develop the World's Next Generation of Leaders - On A Mission 2008
    Would you like to help develop the world's next generation of leaders? Check out the On A Mission program and donate 20 FREE Team Captains Network memberships to a much-deserving high school in your neighborhood. . . . keep reading
    
    
15. Little Eyes Upon You
    Here's a great little poem you can use to remind your athletes that their attitudes and decisions set an important example for many . . . keep reading
    
    
16. How to Inspire Your Athletes to Become Legendary Leaders
    Want a great way to motivate your athletes to become legendary leaders? Use this innovative idea from the Carolina Leadership Academy to inspire your aspiring and existing leaders. . . . keep reading
    
    
17. MOTIVATIONAL THEMES
    Motivational themes help teams be inspired, confident, focused, and loose going into key tournament games. Learn how to create a theme for your team. . . . keep reading
    
    
18. Leadership Lessons from West Point
    What exactly does the U.S. Military Academy at West Point do to earn the reputation of being one of the world's top places for leadership development? . . . keep reading
    
    
19. Rock Solid Leadership Inspirational Video
    Looking for a short inspirational mini-movie to ignite and inspire your leadership? . . . keep reading
    
    
20. DEVELOP YOUR NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS WITH OUR LEADERSHIP RETREAT
    Develop the Leaders You Need to Succeed with Our Intensive and Interactive Leadership Retreat Based on the Janssen Sports Leadership Center's immen . . . keep reading