Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn might have summed up his graduation speech in solely 4 phrases. However, as he advised the one centesimal graduating class at his alma mater — Salisbury College — on Thursday, that might make for too brief a speech.
So Quinn did ship some remarks.
To conclude it, he delivered a knockout punch, utilizing the aforementioned 4 phrases.
“Let it f—ing rip!” Quinn mentioned, earlier than strolling away from the rostrum to applause.
Quinn — who together with spouse, Stacey, obtained an honorary doctorate diploma — implored the graduates to be aggressive and seize alternatives. Quinn has lengthy labored with a psychological abilities coach, which has helped him through the years to channel any unfavorable ideas into constructive options.
He advised the scholars to show any nerves into constructive power.
“Embrace all of it,” Quinn advised the group. “I need to be actually clear about this: The whole world is open to you. My want and my hope for each single one among you is to not let the world change you. You go and alter the world.”
At instances, Quinn’s speech resembled what he’d inform his gamers. He wished the scholars an “abundance of success” but additionally mentioned he wished them “some actually hard-ass fights as a result of that is the place the expansion is, the place you’ll study and educate from — and the place your superpowers will completely absolutely reveal themselves.”
Quinn advised them about how after he graduated from Salisbury, the place he performed on the defensive position, he utilized for 115 Division-I soccer jobs. He obtained no interviews.
“It might have modified my course, however I did not let it change my perception,” Quinn mentioned.
