After winning the national title in 2017, Dabo Swinney gave a...
Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness@coachajkings
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Jun 05, 2025
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After winning the national title in 2017, Dabo Swinney gave a speech at the White House.
It wasn't about football - it was a blueprint for greatness in life.
He shared 4 principles. Simple and powerful.
Here’s what they are and why they work:🧵
It wasn't about football - it was a blueprint for greatness in life.
He shared 4 principles. Simple and powerful.
Here’s what they are and why they work:🧵
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1: Be All In
It's choosing daily discipline and commitment over how you feel.
Be relentless in how you attack the day. Give it everything you have and show up with intention.
It means choosing to commit, compete, and show up with a purpose.
It's choosing daily discipline and commitment over how you feel.
Be relentless in how you attack the day. Give it everything you have and show up with intention.
It means choosing to commit, compete, and show up with a purpose.
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2: Best is the Standard
Set high standards and live to those standards every day.
It means showing up with humility and holding yourself accountable. Don’t just settle for good enough.
You either live the standard or lower it. There’s no in-between.
Set high standards and live to those standards every day.
It means showing up with humility and holding yourself accountable. Don’t just settle for good enough.
You either live the standard or lower it. There’s no in-between.
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3: Be a Person of Excellence
Excellence isn’t the goal, it’s the daily mindset to give your best.
It means focus on the process of what it takes to be successful and build in the daily habits of drive, humility, and gratitude.
Master the art of consistency with high standards.
Excellence isn’t the goal, it’s the daily mindset to give your best.
It means focus on the process of what it takes to be successful and build in the daily habits of drive, humility, and gratitude.
Master the art of consistency with high standards.
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4: Do Common Things in an Uncommon Way
It means showing up with intention and energy to everything - not just showing up to be there.
Strive to give more, do more, and expect more of yourself.
Separate yourself through your mindset, actions, attitude, and energy.
It means showing up with intention and energy to everything - not just showing up to be there.
Strive to give more, do more, and expect more of yourself.
Separate yourself through your mindset, actions, attitude, and energy.
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These 4 principles work because they’re simple and rooted in action.
1: Be All In
2: Best is the Standard
3: Be a Person of Excellence
4: Do Common Things in an Uncommon Way
They are daily habits to master.
Because when you live this way, you win in football and in life.
1: Be All In
2: Best is the Standard
3: Be a Person of Excellence
4: Do Common Things in an Uncommon Way
They are daily habits to master.
Because when you live this way, you win in football and in life.
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