OppThink Quote from Vince Lombardi on Winning and Losing

Vince Lombardi - "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
Another famous quote worth learning from.

Here, Vince took the OppBelief of what most people would have just accepted (that is, "We lost the game"); the opposite is, of course, "We didn't lose the game."

Vince could be very convincing.
But how could he possibly justify this OppBelief?

With a supporting belief. And he found one: "Time ran out."
This is true, time did run out.

In other words, Vince's team would've won the game if they'd had more time to play.
If the game was 5 quarters instead of 4, they would have won, for example.
So now he can truthfully tell his team: don't think of yourselves as losers today.
Think of yourselves as winners who just needed a little more time to prove it.
You're not flawed - the game itself is flawed (for being too short)!
A great shift in mindset, courtesy of a little OppThinking.

Thanks, Vince. You're still invincible.

Quotes: BABE RUTH OppThinks Strikes

Babe Ruth struck out. A lot.
Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times over the span of his career.
Nearly twice as many strikeouts as homeruns, which totaled 714.

But the Bambino looked at strikes as opportunities.
In fact, he is known to have said:
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
An excellent example of opposite thinking.