The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it. Michelangelo
Month: October 2010
Love Your Sport
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. Peggy Fleming
Positive Reinforcement
Article/video from the Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Video Library Positive Reinforcement Coach Mike Candrea of USA Softball talks about why youth sports coaches should tell their players what they want done rather than what they dont want done.
Catch Them Doing Something Right
Article from the Positive Coaching alliance September 16, 2010 Newsletter; video from the Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Library. Emotional Tanks are like a car’s gas tank — when they’re full, we can go anywhere we want to; when it’s empty we can’t go at all. Watch a youth volleyball coach introducing the Emotional Tank concept…
Pessimist
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Oscar Wilde
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda
I’d rather be a “could-be’, if I cannot be an “are’; because a “could-be” is a “maybe” who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a “has-been” than a “might-have-been’, by far; for a “might-have-been” has never “been”, but a “has” was once an “are’. Milton Berle