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"Any idiot with a whistle can coach." - Anonymous Parental Rant When you get a horse, does it come with operating instructions? Ev...

Note: I am a physician with forty years experience, trained in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and practicing in Primary Care. Informat...

Effective coaching puts players and teams in the best position to succeed. Talent, skill development, and integrated offense and defense are...

For a player, the sine qua non of coaching is "added value." What does that mean? 1. Culture. Players must thrive in the program. ...

Basketball isn't an abstraction. Memories are real, tangible, even decades old. Our senses "record" them including smell and t...

  In the Navy, I ate lunch with the "Old Guys", attending physicians who were in their 40s and 50s when I was in my 20s. Colleague...

"Mentoring is the only shortcut to excellence." In Greek mythology, Odysseus entrusts his son Telemachus to his close friend Mento...

Anson Dorrance and Sherri Coale discuss the teaching process, self-discovery, and having a book club. Dorrance says, " We're in the...

"Never phone it in." "What are you saying? Coach, I'm giving it one hundred percent, 24/7/365."  I was pitching a hi...

Power up with analogies. Other domains share valuable perspectives that work every day.  Film directing Ron Howard says, " the director...

Every solid team defends, but we have to score to win. There is too much offensive talent around to win by defending alone.  Using the princ...

"Success leaves footprints." - Kevin Eastman Coaches stamp our ethos and personality onto our team's play. If we saw a Nolan R...

"Comes a day, you're going to have to decide whether it's about you or the work." - Lieutenant Cedric Daniels, The Wire Ke...

Be like Metallica. They don't always agree on the riff but always agree on " what is best for the project ...at the end of the day,...