Don't give up! Don't quit
In high school I remember several of our motivational coming to Jesus meetings with our coaches. Slammed lockers doors, trash cans kicked and the list goes on. The locker room was defiantly never a place you wanted to be called to as a basketball team during practice.
On the flip side I have taken so many life lessons from those meetings. One of them was the "Hold The Rope" talk. As a teen I never really realized how much those moments would help make me who I am today. I never realized then what I know now. That despite everything we face don't give up. Hold the rope! Look at your friends you surround yourself with and ask "would they hold the rope?" It's a good life question!
Hold the Rope!
Every year a NBA team wins the Title. Every
year a college basketball team wins the National Championship. Every year the best
high school teams in Division 5A on down win the state crown. All these
teams have one thing in common. No matter how tough it became throughout
their season, they did one thing – THEY HELD THE ROPE!
What is "holding the rope?" Imagine that you are hanging from the edge
of a cliff with a drop of twenty thousand feet. The only thing between
you and a fall to your death is a rope, with the person of your choice
on the other end. Who do you know that has the guts to pull you to
safety? Who will hold the rope? Who do you know that is going to let
that rope burn their hand and not let go? How many people that you know
are going to withstand the burning pain and watch the blood drip from
their hands for you?
If you can name two people, that's not good enough, because those two
people might not be around. The next time your team is together, look
around and ask yourself, "Who could I trust to hold the rope? Who is
going to let their hands bleed for me?" When you can look at every
member on your team and say to yourself that they all would hold the
rope, you are destined to win a lot of ball games. You see, the team
that holds the rope when the going gets tough are winners. When you are
down by four points with thirty seconds to go, don't give up. Yell at
your teammates to "hold the rope -- let it burn but don't let go!"
Every year there are winners and losers in all sports. Every year the
winners hold the rope. You don't have to have the best team on the court
to win the game. If you play with poise and do what your coaches ask of
you, and most of all – HOLD THE ROPE -- you will be successful. No
matter what sport you play, in order to win, you have to have a
commitment to your team. If you are supposed to run three times per
week, do it. If you have to lift weights three times per week, don't
miss. Once you start letting up at practice or start missing your
workouts, you've killed the team because you didn't hold the rope!
Don't let your team down! You've got to hold the rope!
Every year a NBA team wins the Title. Every
year a college basketball team wins the National Championship. Every year the best
high school teams in Division 5A on down win the state crown. All these
teams have one thing in common. No matter how tough it became throughout
their season, they did one thing – THEY HELD THE ROPE!
What is "holding the rope?" Imagine that you are hanging from the edge
of a cliff with a drop of twenty thousand feet. The only thing between
you and a fall to your death is a rope, with the person of your choice
on the other end. Who do you know that has the guts to pull you to
safety? Who will hold the rope? Who do you know that is going to let
that rope burn their hand and not let go? How many people that you know
are going to withstand the burning pain and watch the blood drip from
their hands for you?
If you can name two people, that's not good enough, because those two
people might not be around. The next time your team is together, look
around and ask yourself, "Who could I trust to hold the rope? Who is
going to let their hands bleed for me?" When you can look at every
member on your team and say to yourself that they all would hold the
rope, you are destined to win a lot of ball games. You see, the team
that holds the rope when the going gets tough are winners. When you are
down by four points with thirty seconds to go, don't give up. Yell at
your teammates to "hold the rope -- let it burn but don't let go!"
Every year there are winners and losers in all sports. Every year the
winners hold the rope. You don't have to have the best team on the court
to win the game. If you play with poise and do what your coaches ask of
you, and most of all – HOLD THE ROPE -- you will be successful. No
matter what sport you play, in order to win, you have to have a
commitment to your team. If you are supposed to run three times per
week, do it. If you have to lift weights three times per week, don't
miss. Once you start letting up at practice or start missing your
workouts, you've killed the team because you didn't hold the rope!
Don't let your team down! You've got to hold the rope!
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