Inside the Mind of Illinois Coach Bret Bielema
Bret Bielema on How to Be The Best You, Luck, Family, and Gifting His Wife Puppies
Bret Bielema is the Head Football Coach at the University of Illinois.
Key Highlights:
Consistency is Key: Discover how Coach Bielema's unwavering consistency in his approach to coaching, family, and life has been the cornerstone of his success and the development of his players.
Balancing Act: Learn how Bielema manages the demanding schedule of a top-tier college football coach while maintaining meaningful connections with his young daughters.
Creating Your Own Luck: Hear Bielema's perspective on how hard work and consistency create opportunities that might be mistaken for luck.
Teaching Life Skills: Understand how Bielema uses football as a vehicle to teach young men valuable life lessons that extend far beyond the field.
Memorable Quotes:
"Do what's right, respect everyone, and be the best you."
"You create your own luck... usually things that are just given to you don't last well. The things that you earn, they last a lifetime."
"I think consistency in everything that you do right so we have a consistency here for me as a head coach with our players but I need to be consistent with my staff, I need to be consistent with our support staff, I need to go home and be consistent to my wife, I need to go home be consistent to my children."
"Never take no for an answer right like people have million different reasons why I can tell you no but until it's final or it's final that you can't see the end is going to come or that the end is inevitable never take no for an answer."
Outline
0:00 - Introduction
0:41 - How To Be The Best You
3:01 - Losing his Mother
4:34 - Hard Conversations
6:51 - Relationships
8:24 - What Drives Bret Bielema?
9:30 - Luck
10:57 - How to plan
13:07 - Why Coaching?
14:23 - Consistency
18:08 - Bret Bielema's Daughters
19:39 - Failures
21:50 - How to work hard (and smart)
23:28 - Advice for young people
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25:08 - 🐶 Gifting Your Wife Puppies
25:40 - 🤼 Wrestling
26:07 - ⚽️ "Football"
26:18 - 🤳 Social media
27:36 - Closing Words
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