Vince Lombardi

Gauging Education Through Standardized Testing It has long been a debate in any realm on how you measure performance in order to categorize potential of an individual. For instance, the NFL combine measures tangible evidence, but yet it is only an indicator and not a true prediction of a player’s ability. Similarly, public education struggles to accurately predict the potential of student achievement. Although it is extremely rigorous to identify, the process to assess performance in public…

In High School, we were assigned to read Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. We had a month to cover the play ourselves, after which we’d be tested. An entire month to read a book, like, less than half an inch thick. A Speech tournament later, I had three full weeks to begin. A swim meet … it’s cool. Two more weeks. Scouts, choir, church, math tutoring, another TV marathon, I’m sure people have read Hamlet in a weekend. I was going to be fine. I could still get an A—Easy.…

Kennedy Howery Andrea Browning Classic Model Essay August 31, 2015 School is one of the most important resources available to humans today. Having a solid education sets and improves the foundation for the entire life of human race. Family is also a very large part of this foundation. A sense of togetherness and love is the basis of what every human wants and needs socially. Family is crucial to not only the development of a child, but also the continued development of an adolescent. Balancing…

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” - Vince Lombardi What does it take to be successful? The answer lies within itself. My whole life I was told hard work and dedication are the keys to being successful at whatever you want do in life. Everyone sets goals and everyone has a dream. But not many of us knows what it takes to accomplish these goals and…

learn how to handle adversity. Young athletes learn about the feeling after a lost or making a bad play. Although, this could feel horrible athletes need to learn how to overcome this feeling so that it doesn’t come again. As the prominent coach Vince Lombardi puts it, “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” This is a great quote by one of the most famous football coaches ever, he agrees that you will fail sometimes but you have to learn to get back up and keep striving…

Every now and again I come across a commercial on television about a college fund for American Indians. The commercial features three American Indian students shouting outside while their words echo from the nearby mountains. It brings to light how American Indian students can turn their education into an entire tribe’s education. “Education can end poverty, violence, and health issues on the rez.” However, “only 5% of the Native Americans on the reservations can afford to go to college.”…

The moment you decide that you want to play the game of football, your life changes forever. At least mine did from the first time I strapped on my pads. I think Vince Lombardi reflected the essence of football in a small collection of words, “people who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” The biggest part of the game is teamwork, a concept that I was introduced to early on, but we’ll get to that later. The first time I…

What a fulfilling ending to a beginning, I totally enjoyed this first part of practicum, although there was a setback in the beginning, I came through it, and so I can prove Carl Rogers (1961) theory in which he believes that if an individual attained self-actualisation they would be a fully functioning person living "the good life". By this, he means that the individual would have a positive healthy psychological outlook, trust their own feelings and have congruence in their lives between self…

I'll show you what awards he won after he retired or during his career. "Named Coach of the Year by the American Football League, 1960; named Coach of the Year by the Washington Touchdown Club, 1977; became the first coach to be honored with the Vince Lombardi Dedication Award, 1979; received the Golden Mike Award from the Touchdown Club of America, 1982" (“John Madden” NSF). Either during or after his career, Madden was not forgotten and named all of these awards for being the person he was.…

Sports and games make victory much more exciting for the players and promote a good sense of sportsmanship among them. According to Vince Lombardi, winners never think about quitting and quitters never win. There are a lot of parents who believe that if their children participate in sports then it will affect their academic accomplishments. Some of them believe that child distraction from…