Loving More
This week is intense. Evolution and Physics 2 test on Friday, ECC's all weekend long (its a swim meet), then an Organic Chem 2 test on Monday. When Monday at 11am roles around, I'm going to be one happy guy.
Spring Break wasn't too bad. Naples, Fl for a few days to see my quasi-grandmother Irene. I realized that I can wait to get old, and that I should take some more advantage of my youth. Back to the ATL for the men's NCAA Swim Championship here at Tech. For those of you who don't know much about swimming, this is arguably the fastest US meet every year, and is up there as one of the fastest meets in the world. I got to work at it, needless to say it was orgasmic. It was humb ling to be around the fastest swimmers and the US. It was awesome seeing all the famous college swim coaches. Alot of these guys are legends in swimming around the world. They are toughest, meanest, and produce some of the fastest swimmers in the world. To top it all off my old coach from Rochester worked at the meet too.
Marty Keating (that's his name...yeah woopdeedoo!) coached both my father and I in swimming, he's older. But, he was one of the best coaches I ever had. He motivates. Being able to see him and talk with him again gave me a fresh boost of motivation (which I don't have to say has been slipping hard for me over the past month). This is the guy gave me my first taste of real motivation. Motivationally, talking with him again was like waking up after sleeping for 12 hours when you stayed up all night the day before. The same thing happened when I went to Rochester for Thanksgiving my senior year in HS. I was fed up with swimming, and he and my other former coach told me what I needed to hear. And now, to this day, whenever I feel my motivation waning I think of what Coach Keating and Coach Morris would say. Keating's talent was taking good swimmers with motivation and turning them into hardasses. He even gave me the name of a good book to read, The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino. That too gave me the proper kick in the ass to finish out this semester the right way.
People often wonder why I'm so damn motivated all the time. Why when I get up in the morning I've got a ton of energy. My swimmers wonder why I'm so loud and why I love swim so much, and why I love to coach swimming so much. Keating Keating Keating Keating. Marty Keating is the epitome of motivation.
I'm pumped now, ready to kick some ass and take names.
"I will persist until I suceed
I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting for be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I suceed."
Spring Break wasn't too bad. Naples, Fl for a few days to see my quasi-grandmother Irene. I realized that I can wait to get old, and that I should take some more advantage of my youth. Back to the ATL for the men's NCAA Swim Championship here at Tech. For those of you who don't know much about swimming, this is arguably the fastest US meet every year, and is up there as one of the fastest meets in the world. I got to work at it, needless to say it was orgasmic. It was humb ling to be around the fastest swimmers and the US. It was awesome seeing all the famous college swim coaches. Alot of these guys are legends in swimming around the world. They are toughest, meanest, and produce some of the fastest swimmers in the world. To top it all off my old coach from Rochester worked at the meet too.
Marty Keating (that's his name...yeah woopdeedoo!) coached both my father and I in swimming, he's older. But, he was one of the best coaches I ever had. He motivates. Being able to see him and talk with him again gave me a fresh boost of motivation (which I don't have to say has been slipping hard for me over the past month). This is the guy gave me my first taste of real motivation. Motivationally, talking with him again was like waking up after sleeping for 12 hours when you stayed up all night the day before. The same thing happened when I went to Rochester for Thanksgiving my senior year in HS. I was fed up with swimming, and he and my other former coach told me what I needed to hear. And now, to this day, whenever I feel my motivation waning I think of what Coach Keating and Coach Morris would say. Keating's talent was taking good swimmers with motivation and turning them into hardasses. He even gave me the name of a good book to read, The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino. That too gave me the proper kick in the ass to finish out this semester the right way.
People often wonder why I'm so damn motivated all the time. Why when I get up in the morning I've got a ton of energy. My swimmers wonder why I'm so loud and why I love swim so much, and why I love to coach swimming so much. Keating Keating Keating Keating. Marty Keating is the epitome of motivation.
I'm pumped now, ready to kick some ass and take names.
"I will persist until I suceed
I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting for be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I suceed."