Long before their recent roll, Mike Zimmer tried to pass along a lesson to his young Vikings team about finding success, then building upon it.
In his experience, and the coach has a lot of it, he named four stages, or “learns,” as he calls them, to becoming a championship football team.
“1. First you learn how to compete.
“2. Then you learn how to win.
“3. Then you learn how to handle winning.