I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.
I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.