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Page Six - The Archer County News - Thursday, March 3, 2005
Coach* Corner
by
Steve
5mith
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FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY
• "We, and all others who believe in
freedom as deeply as we do, would
rather die on our feet than live on our
knees." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What makes greatness? What drives
individuals, teams, or countries to
greatness? It is a question that has
sparked many feuds, conflicts and
even wars.
From the movie: Braveheart
William Wallace: I am William
Wallace. And I see a whole army of
my country men, here in defiance of
tyranny. You've come to fight as free-
men, and freemen you are. What will
you do without freedom?! Will you
fight?
Man: No... we will run... and we
will live.
William Wallace: Aye. Fight and you
may die. Run and you'll live, at least a
while. And dying in your beds, many
years from now, would you be willing
to trade all the days from this day to
that for one chance — just one chance
— to come back here and tell our
enemies, that they may take our lives,
but they'll never take our freedom!
We, as Americans, more than any
other country in the world hold true
that freedom, above all else, is what
makes greatness. It is the rallying cry
for every soldier, patriot, and honest
man, who understands what freedom
really means.
Alan Keyes said, "Freedom is first
of all a responsibility before the God
from whom we come." This means
that we, as free men and women, must
take complete responsibility for your-
self. The day you stop making ex-
cuses, that is the day you start to really
be in control of your life, your des-
tiny, and is the key to being a person
of integrity, courage and the guide to
your own personal success and happi-
ness.
"Those who expect to reap the bless-
ings of freedom must, like men, un-
dergo the fatigues of supporting it"
states Thomas Paine.
Responsibility is the great secret.
We fight and die fpr freedom, but
what we say and do must reflect the
responsibility that comes with the great
power of freedom. As Spiderman's
Uncle would say, "With power come
great responsibilities."
"The cost of freedom is always high,
but Americans have always paid it.
And one path we shall never choose,
and that is the path of surrender, or
submission." The words of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy are true. This price
we have paid since the first pilgrim
died on the soil of this continent. The
founding pioneers that came to this
country to escape
tyranny and willing to take the re-
sponsibility of their future and their
lives into their own hands.
More and more in American we
clamor about our "rights", our "due",
or what someone else "owes" us, and
if we don't get it we sue. There is an
entire industry in our society that feeds
off people who, instead of taking re-
sponsibility for themselves, would
choose to give up personal freedoms
because someone else is to blame for
their current state.
"Good people do not need laws to
tell them to act responsibly, while bad
people will find a way around the
laws." stated Plato. A quote that says
it all about the lobbies that want more
and more control over our lives, and
the personal claims lawsuits that flood
our courts.
Lawsuits on tobacco companies, gun
manufacturers, car manufacturers, and
the list go on and on. Where do we as
a people hold ourselves accountable
for our own actions? When we blame
McDonalds because we are fat, what
we are saying is, "I can't handle the
freedom of choice to choose what I
eat, I need the government to regulate
what they put in the food."
Paxton Blair says, "There has been
in recent years excessive emphasis
on a citizen's rights and inadequate
stress put upon his duties and respon-
sibilities." I find this to be true. The
only right we have is the right to make
our own choices. The right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
as endowed by their Creator. Gerald
W. Johnson once stated, "No man was
ever endowed with a right without
being at the same time saddled with a
responsibility."
The power to fulfill our dreams is
within each of us. Les Brown said, "If
you take responsibility for yourself
you will develop a hunger to accom-
plish your dreams." Albert Einstein
said, "Everything that is really great
and inspiring is created by the indi-
vidual who can labor in freedom."
We alone have the responsibility to
shape our lives. When we understand
this, we know that nothing and no one
can deny us success.
"Self-reliance is the only road to
true freedom, and being one's own
person is its ultimate reward" says
Patricia Sampson. We are the ones
pushing ourselves forward or hold-
ing ourselves back. The power to
succeed or fail is ours alone. "Re-
sponsibility is the thing people dread
most of all. Yet it is the one thing in
the world that develops us, gives us
manhood or womanhood fiber." said
Frank Crane.
Accept responsibility for yourself.
If you are wrong, admit it, take the
consequences, and get on with life.
Do not dwell on the past, blame oth-
ers, and expect others to bail you out.
You can only change the present.
Remember, it is not what happens to
you in life that counts, it is how you
take it and what you make of it that
measures us.
The Bible says, "As you sow, so
also shall you reap." The Chinese
have the saying, "If a man plants
melons, he will reap melons; if he
sows beans, he will reap beans." Good
begets good, and evil begets evil.
This is one of the eternal fundamental
truths of the universe known as the
law of cause and effect.
What it means is that for every
cause, there will be a consequence
nearly equal in intensity. If we make
good use of our minds, actions, skill,
and talents, it will result in positive
rewards in our lives. And if we take
the personal responsibility to make
the best use of our God-given talents
in the time we have, the effect will be
an enormous gain in personal happi-
ness and success. This is true in
everyone's life, the life of a commu-
nity, and the life of a nation.
Success on any major scale requires
you to accept responsibility. In the
final analysis, the individual person
is responsible for living his own life.
If he persists in shifting his responsi-
bility to someone else, he will never
grow as a person. A tobacco user
must face his own weakness to be
cured, not sue a tobacco company.
The first step in AA's 21 steps to
sobriety is to admit that the individual
as a problem. Only then can he begin
to recover. Sophocles once said, "It is
a painful thing to look at your own
trouble and know that you yourself
and no one else has made it."
The men and women of West Point,
have a motto, "No excuses, Sir!" When
you make a mistake or fail at an as-
signment, avoid whining, making
excuses or blaming others. Accept a
failure as a part of your learning pro-
cess. Successful people live up to a
mistake as simply and easily as they
accept praise. Plan and prepare a way
to do better.
Responsibility liberates. Responsi-
bility liberates! RESPONSIBILITY
LIBERATES! Sometimes it takes a
40 lb sledge to drive a point home, but
there is no message that is more im-
portant to a free society than this.
It is the source of our success. If an
athlete takes the responsibility of his
own training, preparation, and condi-
tioning, he or she will be more suc-
cessful. It is easy to blame a coach.
We are conditioned to do so in this
society.
Blame a gun maker instead of a
criminal, blame the beer instead of
the people who let their children drink,
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blame McDonalds for being fat, blame
the referee for costing us a game,
blame the tobacco makers for our
lung cancer, blame the coach because
you don't win, blame the teacher for
failing, blame the school for lack of
discipline, blame someone, it sure
can't be my fault.
Responsibility liberates us as indi-
viduals. It means making the best of
what we have with our minds, talents,
skill and abilities. Taking responsi-
bility gives us the power to control the
direction and outcome of our lives.
You are responsible for you, or as
Harry S. Truman said,- "The Buck
Stops Here."
The following is the personal phi-
losophy of Henry Bartell Zachary, a
man who understood what it meant to
take responsibility for one's self.
"I do not choose to be a common
man. It is my right to be uncommon if
I can. I seek opportunity not security.
I will refuse to be a kept citizen, to be
humbled and dulled by having my
state and nation look after me. I want
to dream and to build, to fail and to
succeed and never to be numbered
among those weak, timid souls, who
have known neither victory nor de-
feat. I know that happiness can come
only from the inside through hard,
constructive work and sincere, posi-
tive thinking. I know that the so-
called pleasures of the moment should
not be confused with a state of happi-
ness. I know that I can get a measure
of inner satisfaction from any job if I
intelligently plan and courageously
execute it. I know that if I put forth
every iota of strength that I possess,
physical, mental, spiritual- toward
the accomplishment of a worthwhile
task ere I fall exhausted by the way-
side, the unseen hand will reach out
and pull me through. Yes, I want to
live dangerously, plan my procedures
on the basis of calculated risks, to
resolve the problems of everyday liv-
ing into a measure of inner peace. I
know if I know how to do all this, I
will know how to live and, if I know
how to live* I will know how to die."
As a coach I want to see each indi-
vidual take the responsibility to work
hard at developing strength, condi-
tioning, dedication, hard work, inten-
sity and effort. For to expect success
without these, is merely to make a
wish.
As an individual I desire most to
become a truely free person. To take
control of my life more and more. To
have a positive effect on those around
me and to display the qualities that I
know to be right and true.
It is far easier to talk than it is to
apply, I assure you, but my short
comings will not persuade me from
the path. A path I hope to stray less
from ahd hold course truer day by
day.
I am always searching for wisdom
and inspiration and know there are
those who have a lot to share. If you
wish to share a comment or an expe-
rience, please feel free to contact
Coach Smith at: Archer City ISD,
P.O. 926, Archer City, TX 76351.
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nominations for students who may
qualify for the district's Gifted and
Talented Program. Nominations may
be made by teachers, staff members,
parents, guardians, members of the
community, peers, or by self-nomi-
nation.
Nomination forms may be picked
up in the high school/middle school
principal's office; they should be re-
turned to the same location no later
than March 4, 2005 (tomorrow).
The Gifted and Talented Program
serves students who consistently ex-
hibit exceptional intellectual or cre-
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Sign-up period for 2005 EQIP
funding to end March 18
The USDA-Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) has
announced that farmers ahd ranch-
ers wishing to be considered for
2005 funding in the Environmental
Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
should make sure they sign up by
the close of business Friday, March
18, 2005.
EQIP was reauthorized in the 2002
Farm Bill to provide a voluntary
conservation program for farmers
and ranchers that promotes agricul-
tural production and environmental
quality as compatible national goals.
EQIP offers financial and technical
help to assist eligible participants
install or implement structural and/
or management practices on eligible
agricultural land.
The Archer County 2005 EQIP
program will offer farmers and
ranchers help with waste manage-
ment systems for dairies operations,
critical area planting ( gully shap-
ing), terraces, grassed waterways,
brush management, pasture and,
hayland planting, range planting,
and pest management (weed con-
trol).
This program offers cost share and
incentives payments to producers
applying approved conservation
measures.”
Howard Sprague (District Conser-
vationist, NRCS) explained that the
Local Work Group chaired by the
Archer County Soil and Water Con-
servation District recommended lo-
cal resource concerns to be ad-
dressed, eligible practices, and cost-
share rates. This group also helped
develop ranking criteria, which will
determine which applications will
be approved for funding.
Beginning immediately after
March 18,2005, all applications will
be ranked and those selected for fund-
ing will be approved. A conserva-
tion planner will develop a contract
and conservation plan for each con-
tract that is approved. Producers who
have been awarded contracts can
then begin implementing the ap-
proved conservation practices.
For assistance on making an appli-
cation or for more information please
contact the Natural Resources Con-
servation Service (NRCS) at 313
West Main in Archer City. Our phone
number is 574-4612 extension 3.
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Lewis, Shelley. Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 2005, newspaper, March 3, 2005; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth993593/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Archer Public Library.