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| Golden Team Canada Quotes; Sports, Business and Life |
Written by Robyn T. Braley
The Brandit blog is about branding. Branding is driven by inspiration. There is a reason why elite athletes become inspirational keynote speakers. They’ve made life sacrifices in order to accomplish great things. In this post I include humorous and motivational tweets about Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in 2014. If you tweet, follow me and I promise to reciprocate.
I admit it. I’m hooked. I didn’t plan it that way, it’s just the way
things turned out. Now, it’s a dependency. I can’t stop. I’ve become an
unrepentant tweeter. During the Olympics I ramped it up a notch.
I’m
an early riser and am often into the office by 5:30. I have a small flat screen
TV to track news when we have media events happening. The opportunity was there
for me to to tweet moments of brilliance and astute observations throughout the
Olympics. Well, brilliant in my mind.
The
men’s gold medal hockey game was especially fun. You really felt part of a
community that was enjoying being Canadian. Imagine getting up at 4:00 am to
watch hockey. Twitter provided the platform for a shared national experience.
MiniBlogging
For
those who don’t imbibe, tweeting is really mini blogging. You are forced to
express your thoughts in 140 characters including spaces. If you want to be
retweeted, it’s best to narrow that down to 120.
The
key is to find a voice and be consistent. I tweet about business, sports,
politics and life. One of the strategies is to retweet your tweets at different
times of the day. You communicate with different audiences.
Tweeting
during events like the Olympics or Academy Awards connects you with national
and even global communities. I’ve found that Sundays are great days to attract
business followers. Many are too busy to tweet during the week.
Speaking
of time management, there are excellent automation programs to coordinate all
of your social media accounts, release messages across platforms, and schedule
tweets to be released automatically.
Get-to-the Point
O.K.,
enough theory. I’ve taken out hashtags and other twitterisms and edited them
for readability and organized the topics for flow. For those obsessed with counting,
some are now more than 120 characters.
Pure
Inspiration
1. Canadian women’s
Olympics 2014 slogan. ‘Adversity brings unity. Preparation equips for the unknown.’
Great motto.
2. The mark
of a winner. Assess your performance and make apppropriate changes. After
analyzing Team Canada players and coaches, I’m not sure what those changes would
be! - Robyn T. Braley
3. Notice Carey
Price did not mention "me" or "I" once. Talked about team
system and how much fun it is to play behing an awesome defence.
4. Hailey
Wickenheizer; Don’t let the enormity of the moment in history be bigger than
the play. Focus on the play.
5.
Gotta love the end of game
shot of Teemu Selaenne leaning in to console Alexander Ovechkin. Sums up his
approach to the game, team, country, and life. Also shows compasion.
6. Kaillie
Humphries gives credit for Bobsled gold to family and layers of support
systems. It takes a village to raise a Gold Medal Champion.
7. Just got an
email from a client visiting Thailand. Can't find Olympic hockey info. Dying a
slow death. Imagine! No hockey. That’s not right.
8. Good news
for Team Canada’s GM Stevey Y. Canada finaly beat Latvia’s goalie Gudefskis.
Better news. Tampa owns his rights.
9. Another
Team Russia defeat. Putin not pleased. Russian players trying to make a hasty
exit to Bolivia where there’s a rogue league. Does the KGB operate there?
Scramble the Migs.
10. Hockey men
get paid way more than hockey women. Cool that Crosby gave credit to Canadian women
for advice.
About Coaching
1. Bobsled
coach Delahunty on making the Chris Spring change. "That's what coaches
do. Make tough decisions."
2. Kevin
Dineen with a great tip for coaching and life. Put the right players in the
right place and let them play.
3. Talk
about earning trust. Kevin Dineen gave his credit card to the entire women’s
hockey team and told them to go for dinner when they were in Austria. He sent
them out shopping. Smart!
4. Mike Babcock. Win the
little battles, be disciplined and stay ready to take advantage of the
opportunities.
5. Another Babcockism. We are all about
team. Everyone has a role. There are no eagles on the bench. Did he say Eagles?
Hawks, maybe.
6. Is Sindey
Crosby in the lineup today? Wherezzzz Sidney. Therezzz Sidney. Finaly.
On Being
Canadian
1. Steve
Podborski. "We've managed to do both. Being the best and being
Canadian."
2. What
defines a Canadian, eh? Not ethnicity. Not language. It's surviving the 2014
winter and getting up with millions of fellow countrymen to watch Gold Medal hockey
at 4 AM. – Robyn T. Braley
3. Justin Trudeau,
Liberal Convention; Can you trust a Canadian political leader who
schedules a national convention on a pivotal hockey weekend?
4. Just discovered
US TV is carrying the mold medal game. That's different. Do they know Team USA
is not in it?
5. Retweet; I
wish America had a sport that captured Americans the way hockey captures
Canadians. Pride. Passion. Pucks.
6. Kailie
Humphries on the lost telephone connection with Prime Minister Harper after
winning gold. Whoops!
Team Canada
Women’s Gold Medal Game
1. Team Canada women shaking hands
following Gold Medal with Team USA women. A handshake and a growl!
2. Lesson in
focus and discipline. Bad refereeing and the puck hitting post with the net
empty would have rattled the best. O, Canada!
3. On Kevin Dineen. What a gold
medal accomplishment. Many fired NHL coaches would have declined the women's
team gig. He called the experience life altering.
Team Canada Men’s Gold
Medal Game
1. Key for Team
Canada. Focus on the play, not the historical moment. Focus. Zone time. – Robyn
T. Braley
2. Retweet of a Getty
Images Team Canada photo after winning gold; You can't tell
by look on their faces who played the most or least. They are all just winners!
– Robyn T. Braley
3. Just got
a Rotary tweet from India. Didn't mention gold medal hockey. Is that allowed?
4. Think
church attendance will be down. Busy with other Canadian religion. Hockey! 'Oh
God..please..11/2 more periods. – Robyn T. Braley
Don
Cherry
1. What if Don
Cherry’s fashion sense catches on internationally? Will Canadians be held
responsible?
2. Don Cherry is
talking about Drew Doughty's pants irregularity. Really? Now that's content.
3. Retweet; Trust
Don cherry to draw the attention of Swedish spies to Doughty’s illegal pants.
4. Did Don
Cherry just say the Canadian women players are bigger? Is that a good idea? Do
women want to hear that?
Robyn T. Braley is a writer, speaker and occasional media guest. He is the President of UniMark Creative which does website design, video production, media services (editorial and advertising), and graphic design. He speaks at business conferences and also blogs about branding.
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