Men's Health | 19.11.2025 02:30AMERICA'S MOST RIVETING halftime speeches aren’t being barked out on an NFL sideline or an WNBA locker room. They’re in the hallway of a New Jersey high school, pumping players up for … a rec league.“You have to start somewhere,” says Phil Bicocchi, the Northern Highlands Recreational League coach who is becoming America’s favorite new motivator. Bicocchi’s impassioned pleas to his rag tag rec league players have racked up tens of thousands of likes, as the 23-year old paces hypes his players. When it’s time to pump up your team at work, in the car dropping them off for Pony League, or even when your “team” is yourself before getting under the barbell, follow Bicocchi’s three tips for a speech that will really stir.
