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Ego Contributes to Your Success and Failures

By | Pat Sullivan | addicted2success.com

Bill Russell played for the Boston Celtics for 13 years. Remarkably, his teams won the NBA championship 11 of those 13 years. He felt the key to their success was the development of their team ego. He said when the Celtics entered a building for practice or a game, they left their individual egos at the door. However, what they brought into the building was their team ego. The Celtics knew they were a good team and their mindset towards an opponent was if you are to beat us, you had better bring a great game because we know we are!

Great coaches knew the secret about ego

Great coaches constantly speak to the importance of the team, not the individual. Vince Lombardi of Green Bay Packer fame used to tell his athletes, “Individual commitment to a group cause is what makes a team, a business, a church, or a country work.”

John Wooden, the iconic UCLA basketball coach, was a star player. He was not only an All-American at Purdue University; he was named the College Player of the Year in his senior season. He also coached numerous stars at UCLA who went on to excel in the NBA, among them the leading scorer in NBA history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He had this insight into individual ego and stardom, “The main ingredient of a star is the rest of the team.”

Al McGuire, a basketball Hall of Famer, was an outstanding coach at Marquette University. His primary refrain to his players was, “Either we all go uptown together, or no one goes uptown at all.”

Talent doesn’t always matter

You do need talent to win in athletics, but talent alone will not win; it is only talent that plays together that wins. Jerry West was certainly one of, if not the best shooter to ever play in the NBA. He played 14 years and played on 1 championship team.

Michael Jordan, having watched him at practice and in 30 plus playoff games, is the best player I have ever seen. You could make the argument that Oscar Robertson was the second-best player in NBA history. Like West, he played 14 years but only played on 1 championship team.

Charles Barkley was an extraordinary player. He was an 11 time All NBA Player and the most valuable player in the League in 1993, but he never played on one championship team.

Ernie Banks excelled for the Chicago Cubs for 18 years. He is considered the best power hitting shortstop in the history of baseball, leading the National League in home runs in 1958 and 1960 and finishing his career with 512 homers. A Hall of Famer, he was a 14-time All-Star and 2-time National League Player of the Year, yet he never played on a championship team.

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