Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.