The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one