COACH'S CORNER
May 2008
"Fairness"
Character development is an ongoing, ever changing process. The ideals of TRUSTWORTHINESS, RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, FAIRNESS, CARING and CITIZENSHIP are at the core of who we should strive to be as a human. Specifically as a member of the Central Catholic Football Program, these concepts help guide us to success on and off the field. I challenge you to be fair with others in all your dealings, being fair means showing others that you care and that you recognize that we are all flawed humans. Show compassion to each other and support each other through these various concepts.
FAIRNESS
Being fair – (actions marked by impartiality and honesty: free from self-interest, prejudice or favoritism.)
- Many things in life are not fair but all things should be. – Michael Josephson
- Why is it that, the fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion?
- It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair. A just person is never knowingly unfair – Michael Josephson
- Do not take unfair advantage of people’s mistakes or ignorance.
- Swallowing your pride rarely gives you indigestion.
- What makes life worth living is giving and forgiving.
- Fairness requires that we do not make judgments until we know all the facts.
- A person’s true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching.
- Keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you will have to eat them.
- It isn’t easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head that is filled with prejudice.
Openness – (being open-minded and impartial)
- Be open-minded and impartial – hear people out, listen to them and consider what they have to say before you decide.
- A bigger fool than the fellow who knows it all is the one who’ll argue with him.
- Be careful – get the facts, including opposing view points, before making decisions, (especially when blaming or accusing another.)
- Life can only be understood by looking forward. (Be open to the future; don’t live in the past.)
- The purpose of an education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Every person has a right to his/her opinion. No one has a right to be wrong about the facts.
- Minds are like parachutes; they function best when open.
- Always listen to the opinions of others. It may not do you much good but it will them.
- Don’t be so narrow-minded that your ears rub together.
- The wheels of progress are not turned by cranks.
- If you can’t have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.
Justice – (the quality of being just, impartial or fair.)
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly – Aristotle
- We must guard against projecting our suspicions onto others’ characters and actions…they are innocent until proven guilty.
- The path you follow in life should be one of justice.
- Four things are required of a judge; to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. (That should be our requirement, also.)
- If you scatter thorns, don’t go barefoot – Benjamin Franklin.
- Justice demands that you defend those you dislike as well as those you like – Roger Baldwin
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- We hate some persons because we do not know them: and will not know them because we hate them…(that is an injustice) – Charles Caleb Colton
- Twenty percent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety percent of the work. If that is not fair, then do something about it.
- Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. (This goes for justice as well.) - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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