Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.