Hey, I need some help writing a speech where I'm a cross-country running coach attempting to motivate my runners who have given up all hope.

tell them about all that training all the time and effort everything they have done all for cross country

Explanation:

watch overcomer the Pureflix movie. it's super inspiring and might give you some motivation for an amazing speech. Also, consider telling them about famous failures like MJ, who didn't make the cut for his high school basketball team, or Einstein, who was told he was because he didn't speak to anyone until he was 4, or the Beatles, who were told they would never make it, or Walt Disney, who was fired from a newspaper for having zero original content and a lack of imagination.

Explanation:

Using those stories you can tell them about how they can choose to sit around and cry, or they can get up and use the power of pure determination to get up, even when it's hard, to get up, even when they dont feel like it and say "They will overcome!" and make them promise to themselves and/or make it into a chant that no matter what, they will fight through andf overcome. This has worked for years with like, every inspirational speech ever, but you have to deliver it well. You have to tell the stories of failure in a low and somber tone, then build up to a yell of "YOU WILL OVERCOME!" and keep speaking that into them, that they can and they will fight through and win!

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