IF YOU think you can achieve, you will find a way to do it.
That was the message from Olympic bronze medal winner Karen Brown when she returned to Oxted School where her hockey journey began.
Her visit was part of an inspire a generation week organised by the Bluehouse Lane School, particularly on the back of the London 2012 Olympics.
It is just a couple of months since Brown, as coach, helped Team GB's women earn a bronze medal - 20 years after being part of the first and only other British women's team to win a medal, also bronze.
Brown gave a speech to pupils before assistant three Oxted Hockey Club coaches in giving youngsters tips - on the pitch she helped raise money for.
"I started playing a little bit by accident," she admitted, referring to how, at 14, she was stood on the sidelines one day and filled in when a player became injured. The teacher saw how good she was and encouraged her to play. Brown went on to play 335 times either for England or Great Britain.
After leaving, Brown returned with a team of top players to face a school side to help raise funds for the Astroturf.
She has made several visits, but none seem more pertinent than straight after the London Olympics and its pledge to inspire a generation and leaving legacy.
Hockey has been set up for an influx for a while.
Brown said: "I think some clubs have had massively over-subscribed open days, as with all sports.
"We won't know for another couple of years in terms of what effect it will have. Getting young kids interested in the game, we've already hit targets. It's keeping them interested that's the challenge."
Letting children in assembly hold her bronze medal was one way - while telling them how to achieve. "I'm not anyone special," she said. "It's just that hockey was the career I chose."
Her message was simple. "If you work hard enough and set you mind on it, you can do something.
"The only limiting factor is your mind. If your mind can't perceive, you will struggle, but if you want to do it you will find a way. It is the same in any choice in life.
"I was trying to explain to them that sport isn't just about being good at sport. There is a lot more to it, like science and nutrition or physiotherapy and even accountancy.
"So there are a lot of jobs you can do and still be involved in sport."
As part of the week, Olympic diver Stacie Powell also returned to talk not just about sport but astrophysics, teacher Stuart Milne saying she had been "mobbed" by autograph hunters.
The school also had cycling introduced and now do skills courses for pupils aged seven to 11.
More than 500 of the school's 2,300 pupils regularly take part in after-school sport sessions - a huge increase on last year.
And head of PE James Faulkner, a Dorking Rugby Club player who won the national county title with Surrey last year, has started running two rugby teams with regular fixtures at weekends. Netball, rugby and football teams have already had tours this season.
Like Brown, Taya Williams had her talent spotted by a teacher and, now 11, plays hockey regularly having started three years ago.
She was among those given extra tips by the Oxted HC coaches Lewis Morgan, Dan McGuire and Anthony Rapson, plus Brown. "The school had a quick sticks tournament and I tried it," she said. "Mrs [Maggie] Haywood saw me playing and said I should carry on."
Haywood has now retired, but was co-ordinator for the School Sport Partnership which the Government closed 18 months ago.
Imogen Newbold, also 11, is trying the sport for the first time this season - and seems willing to try any activity.
"There's a hockey club after school which I'm thinking of joining," she said, referring to how the stick practice she was shown would benefit her lacrosse. She also does netball and running.
"My brother did hockey when he was here," she said of Conor, now at Reigate College and a Surrey and Reigate Priory cricketer. "My family are sporty, so they encourage me."
Just like the Oxted School family.