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"You get up every day, you're entitled to nothing. Nobody owes you nothing. You could have talent, but if you don’t have discipline, if you don’t execute, you don’t focus, you get nothing. If you’re complacent, and not paying attention to detail, what does that get you? Nothing. So, nothing is acceptable but your best. Everything is determined by you trying to be your best. There should be nothing else but that for everybody." -Nick Saban

Potential is one of the most haunting words in the English language. When you’re in your adolescence it’s a promising lottery ticket for a great future. It makes you feel warm inside, you were endowed with the right genetics, IQ, EQ, intangibles, you name it. It’s not just that you could have a great future, it’s destiny.

After all you have potential.

You go off to college, enter the workforce, maybe move out of your hometown and these new foreigners somehow didn’t get the memo. Your classmates are smarter than you, your boss hasn’t promoted you in your first 30 days of work, and no one knows you were homecoming king in this new town.

Potential is a check that bounces every time.

Your future can still be great, it just won’t be determined by what your parents, teachers, or youth football coaches told you. It will be up to you.

Everything is determined by you trying to be your best.

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