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Warriors Not Winners

Warriors Not Winners is a 60 Minute Course designed for coaches and athletes. It defines what it means to be a warrior, teaches how to develop a warrior ethos, and how to build a culture that embraces warrior values. When you focus on competing instead of simply winning, true championship behaviors emerge. 

The Champion Teammate

COMING IN SPRING 2025! Based on our bestselling book by the same name, The Champion Teammate is a 60 minute course that will teach your kids how to be better leaders, better connectors, and help them and their teams compete like they never have before. This book is used by state, regional and NCAA Champion teams to have thier best season ever! 

Most Popular Lessons

Warriors Not Winners: Defining Warrior Athletes

Warriors Not Winners: Developing a Warrior Ethos

Warriors Not Winners: Defending a Warrior Culture

Top Articles

Learning from Losing: Life Lessons from Roger Federer

The One Quality Great Teammates Have in Common

More Important Than Talent

The Difference Between Winning and Losing

Dear Potential Recruit: Your Talent Only Gets You So Far

An Uncommon Man: Life Lessons from a True Sporting Role Model

Chapters: What it Feels Like NOT to Make the Olympic Team

Lionel Messi and the Will to Compete

The Rocky Road of Excellence

Developing Warriors, Not Winners, is the Path to Excellence

The Way of the Champion

The Extra Mile

Life Lessons from my "Old School" Sports Dad

The Mindset of High-Performers

Don't Choke: The Difference Between Playing to Win and Playing Not to Lose

See more

Our Favorite Interviews

Champion Athletes

Learn from some of the best athletes in the world including Wes Brown from Man United and Julie Foudy from US Soccer 

Mindset

Learn how to develop a champions mindset from thought leaders such as Trevor Ragan, Jonah Oliver, Steve Magness, etc.

Authors

Learn from bestselling authors James Clear, Ryan Holiday, Dan Coyle, Sam Walker, Steve Magness and more.

Champion Athletes

Wes Brown

Wes Brown Manchester United at age 12, turned pro at age 16, and eventually won 2 Champions League titles (1999, 2008) 5 English Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups, 2 League Cups and made the PFA team of the year in 2000-2001. He eventually played over 300 EPL games for Manchester United and Sunderland. Want to learn what it was like to share the field with both Ronaldo and Messi? 

 Julie Foudy 

Julie Foudy is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion and 2x Olympic gold medalist. She played for the United States women’s national soccer team from 1987–2004. Foudy finished her international career with 271 caps and served as the team’s captain from 2000–2004 as well as the co-captain from 1991–2000. In 1997, she was the first American and first woman to receive the FIFA Fair Play Award. Today she serves as an analyst for ESPN

Martin St. Louis

St. Louis played over 1,000 games and scored 1,000 points in an NHL career that began with the Calgary Flames in 1998 and ended with the New York Rangers in 2015. St. Louis is best remembered for having played with the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2000 until being traded to the Rangers in 2014. He was a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup championship team in 2004. St. Louis was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018 and currently coaches the Montreal Canadians.

Angela Hucles

Angela Hucles is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist for US Soccer, two-time World Cup Bronze Medalist, former professional soccer player of the Boston Breakers and the US Soccer Foundation’s 2009 Humanitarian of the Year. Angela is a sports broadcaster and analyst for the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Angela is a TEDx speaker, served as the president of the Women’s Sports Foundation and president of the Houston Dash of the NWSL.

Tim Hightower

On October 23, 2011, Tim Hightower was the starting running back for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League, when he suffered a torn ACL in his left knee during a game. Over the next four years he faced a lengthy recovery in body and soul. His is a story of strength, resilience, faith, courage, and determination – surviving five surgeries, financial challenges, and periods of homelessness to return to play in the NFL. 

Chamique Holdsclaw

Chamique Holdsclaw was called the Michael Jordan of Women’s Basketball. She dominated the courts winning 3 National Championships at the University of Tennessee and being named the Naismith Player of the Century. She was 4-time All-American, World Champion, Olympic Champion and enjoyed an 11-year professional career, but no one knew the real battle she was waging with depression. it almost cost her her life. 

Click Here for More Athlete Interviews Including:

Luke Chadwick, Man United on Mental Health

Ashton Eaton, 2x Olympic Decathlon Champion

Jay Fielder, NFL Quarterback and Multi-sport Athlete

Austin Hatch on Resilience + Surviving 2 Plane Crashes

Mark Wilson, Manchester United on Champion Habits

Matt Birk, Super Bowl Champion on Multi-sport Kids

Bo Eason, NFL player on Not Having a Plan B

Lauren Fleshman, National Champion Runner

Keegan Hadley on Overcoming ACL Injuries

Paul Goodman, NHL Chicago Blackhawks S/C Coach

Christine Rampone, 3x Olympic/2x World Cup Champ

Mark Pulisic, Father of US Soccer's Christian Pulisic

Jay DeMerit from College to English Premier League

Chris Wondolowski, MLS All Time Leading Scorer

Wells Thompson, MLS Champion on Mental Health

Grete Elliason, 6x X Games Gold Medalist Skier

Lakey Peterson, World Champion Surfer

Nate Boyer from Special Forces to the NFL

Dr Tommy John on Functional Movement

Mike Boyle, MLB Boston Red Sox Strength Coach

The Champions Mindset

Jonah Oliver on Building the Mindset to Overcome Pressure

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Trevor Ragan on Becoming a Better Learner

Trevor Ragan is the Founder of The Learner Lab and host of the Learner Lab Podcast, two of the best resources for all things mindset, performance, and of course, learning and how to get better at getting better. His  book Learner explores so many topics that will make you a better leader, and a better athlete and teach you to train like a Jungle Tiger.

Steve Magness on Doing Hard Things

Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, well-being, and sustainable success. His most recent work is Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. Steve works with executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes on their performance and mental skills. He’s served as a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top teams and athletes in professional sports

Advice from Bestselling Authors

James Clear on Building Habits

James Clear is the author of Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. This book has sold over 20 million copies and his been a worldwide bestseller since 2018. We were lucky enough to interview James when the book was first released and he gives some incredible advice on how small changes result in huge results. 

Sam Walker on Being a Great Team Captain 

What do the Collingwood Magpies, the New Zealand All Blacks, Barcelona Football Club and the New York Yankees have in common? They’re all members of author Sam Walker’s list of the 16 greatest sports teams ever. It’s not the talent, the coach, or the strategy that made these teams great. Syd Coventry, Richie McCaw, Yogi Bera, and Carles Puyol led these teams, and what made them great captains is not what you think.

Dan Coyle on Building Culture

Daniel Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Culture Code, The Little Book of Talent, The Secret Race (co-authored with Tyler Hamilton). He is a contributing editor for Outside Magazine, and works as a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Coyle discusses the three principles of the world’s best team cultures: safety, vulnerability, and shared purpose.

Ryan Holiday on The Obstacle is the Way

Ryan Holiday is a strategist, speaker and best-selling author. He dropped out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, and later served as the director of marketing for American Apparel. Holiday has written five books including Ego is the Enemy, The Obstacle is the Way, and Trust Me I’m Lying. His most recent, The Obstacle Is the Way, has been translated into seventeen languages and has a cult following among NFL coaches, world-class athletes, TV personalities, political leaders, and others around the world

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