Brett Quinion speaks to Leadership
Council
Brett Quinion, former Bristol businessman turned head football
coach at Avon
High School was the keynote speaker at Nuchie’s on
Tuesday as part of the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame’s
Leadership Council Breakfast, a gathering of team captains from
Bristol’s three high schools and Hall of Fame officers and
directors.
The event was MC’d by Bristol attorney Mark Ziogas, a
Hall of Fame director.
Ziogas told those in the audience the get-together, a three
times a year event, is "to help you become better leaders,
not only on the ball field but in the community."
And with them being team leaders, he added, "Never
underestimate the impact you have on the underclassmen."
Quinion, a commodities trader, told the athletes of three
points to take note of: to help others around them to succeed; to
go through life with grace: and then he asked them, "How do
you want to be remembered?"
In explaining "grace," he told the athletes to write
the word on a piece of paper and to keep it in their pocket.
"When you get stressed," he said, "you’ll
feel your hand on the crinkled paper in your pocket. Remember the
bigger picture."
Following the talk, a group discussion was held at each of the
tables and a member of each was asked to comment on coach Quinion’s
presentation as a representative of his or her group.
Table No. 1, with Central’s Kim Barwis, Kevin Ceglarski
and Will Eschner, Eastern’s Molly Hintz and Ben Root, and
St. Paul’s Kristen Lamontagne, Alannah O’Hagan and
Thomlynne Healy, was represented by the later in presenting that
table’s comments.