As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.
First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.
Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.
Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.
The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.
You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.
You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.
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