Elias thought about his father, a high school football coach who used to say, "You don't practice for the games you know you'll win; you practice for the Sunday you might lose."
"I didn't," Elias replied. "I just knew that eventually, there would be a 'Sunday.' And when it arrived, I didn't want to be the one explaining why I wasn't ready." Any Given Sunday
The "Any Given Sunday" philosophy means that Success belongs to the person who treats every "ordinary" day with the same discipline as the "big" day. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. Elias thought about his father, a high school
But the community center stood. It became the only dry place in the district, serving as the makeshift hospital and shelter for three hundred people. But the community center stood
The next morning, the lead contractor found Elias looking at the waterline on the building’s side.