I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
You can only receive what you're willing to give.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.
It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.