helped the opposite team players up and demonstrated really good sportsmanship. It was a difficult game for the Germans having to face the British team and their home crowd. But they were clearly inspired by their coach who was up and down at the side of the arena supporting them all the time. It was great to watch Nicolai, as he appeared to be a great leader. He used every break to review the team performance, check on the players and work through the strategy. It paid off – the German team won in overtime. The game was tense until the last second. Unfortunately the German men’s team did not win a medal but that did not matter because the spirit of the team, ambitious, strong, confident, self-disciplined team players, who have overcome obstacles to reach their goal and the leadership of their coach truly inspired me and many others.
“Attitude determines altitude” Zig Ziglar
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit” Aristotle
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy” Martin Luther King
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin” Mother Teresa
Nicolai Zeltinger Paralympic Basketball Coach
Blathnaid Mullan-Young St Mary’s Grammar School
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude” Thomas Jefferson
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Michael Phelps is a retired American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic Gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders, Olympic Gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 summer Olympic in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.
‘From this project, I have learned my true qualities and how to persevere to reach my goals and achieve by best. I have explored my hero and the challenges she overcame’.
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