will and wish to win
isn’t chance for either unless
a will to prepare

The will to win.

We hear a lot about that.

The will and the wish to win, but there isn’t a chance for either one of them to be gratified or to have any value unless there has been a will to prepare to win: the will to prepare for service, to do the things that build and develop our capacity, physical, mental, and moral.

I don’t care what job you are undertaking, what field of human endeavor, all life is a service of some kind or other; all that we do in organized society today to make it better and finer is good service and all that we do the other way is poor service and we never can render this service and the will to win won’t be much to a twelve second man in a run against a ten.

He must have the will to prepare to win.

Fielding H. Yost as quoted in Intimate Talks with Great Coaches Edited by E. Dana Caulkins (Public Schools Athletic League (New York, N.Y.) New York : Wingate Memorial Fund, Inc., 1930).

Prepare to win.

Put in the time required to win.

The will to put in the time required to win.

Fielding H. Yost coached football at the University of Michigan and was Athletic Director at the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1940.

It was in 1930 that Coach Hurry Up Yost said “The will and the wish to win, but there isn’t a chance for either one of them to be gratified or to have any value unless there has been a will to prepare to win.”

It was on Nov. 30, 2024 that current Michigan football coach, Sherrone Moore said:

It’s not really about scheme.

It’s not really about techniques.

It’s really about the will and the will to want to put your man in the backfield or put him across the line of scrimmage, and that’s what we preached all week, and that’s what those guys did.

It’s really about the will …

and that’s what those guys did.

Michigan 13 – OSU 10.

And don’t you forget it.