Paul Assaiante
12 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2023 by Paul Assaiante · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Dec 12, 2023 positive
Assaiante: Athletes must practice their weaknesses but compete strictly to their strengths
“I believe that you practice your weaknesses, but you compete to your strengths. And the more you can shore up your weaknesses when your opponent tries to expose those, then you're going to be more able to get past it. You always want to go out there in competi…”
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Assaiante: True success is knowing when you have enough without stopping effort
“But I think success is to get to a place where you can look in the mirror. Almost nobody gets here, by the way. You can look in a mirror and say, I have enough. To me, that's really successful. Now, that doesn't mean you take your foot off the gas. You continu…”
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Assaiante: Increasing time between thought and action reduces knee-jerk reactions
“We've just doubled the amount of time between thought and action. That's a good thing, alright, because now we're less likely to act on a thought That may have been a bad thought or a knee-jerk reaction. The goal is to increase the gap of time between those tw…”
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Assaiante: Moving from good to great requires accepting a temporary backward step
“One of the things I find as a coach is in an effort to move forward, You sometimes need to take a half a step backwards, and people will absolutely fight that to the death. I don't want that. I want to become, I want to go from good to great, but I'm not willi…”
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Assaiante: Educators must share all perspectives so students decide for themselves
“If you have a tree that's bent to the left and you want the tree to grow straight, you don't tie the tree straight. You bend it to the right and then the tree finds the middle. I think we have to share all perspectives and let the kids make up their own minds.”