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Article Title

A Philosopher in the Locker Room: Sportsmanship and the Honorary Coach Program at St. John Fisher College

Authors

Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher UniversityFollow

Document Type

Faculty Essay

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

In a recent ad for Under Armour sneakers, the actor Jamie Foxx intones the following: “You know, the Greek philosopher Aristotle said ‘You are what you repeatedly do.’ Huh – but in our book, we take it a little deeper. We say, ‘You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard’” (Under Armour 2015). Foxx goes on to say, “My apologies to Aristotle, but excellence doesn’t become a habit by running the same path over and over. No, No, No! You know what the excellent ones do? They reinvent the rules altogether. The excellent ones just step up to the line and ask ‘What’s the record?’” (Under Armour 2015).

First Page

83

Last Page

87

Recommended Citation

Madigan, Tim (2015) "A Philosopher in the Locker Room: Sportsmanship and the Honorary Coach Program at St. John Fisher College," Verbum: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/verbum/vol13/iss1/13