Lack of knowledge - that is the problem.
What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.
What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.
One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.
After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels
The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry. " I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.
Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.