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1.
Remind your players before each match to enjoy their experience.
2.
A crisp, 90-minute training session beats a dragged-out, two-and-a-half-hour session
every time.
3. On match day, step
back, quiet down and enjoy watching the fruition of your labor (when the whistle
blows, it's very much your player's show).
4.
Real power comes from serving your people well.
5.
Where there is a will, there is not always a way - but sometimes there is.
6. Find a kind way to tell your players
the blunt truth.
7. Athletics participation
is important, but it is just a temporary, wonderful phase to pass through on the
way to real life.
8. Don't second
guess yourself - make the best decision you can and move on.
9.
Speak succinctly. Don't lose track of the value being uncomplicated.
10.
Balance praise and criticism - too much of either can be harmful.
11.
Set your standards early and don't compromise them.
12.
Speak freshly, avoiding the gaggingly inane clichés, such as "stepping
up," "moving to the next level" or "giving 110 percent."
13. In these sullen, win-at-all-cost
times, enjoy the occasional belly laugh. Delight is the wage of living.
14.
It's unnecessary to raise your voice to be heard if your players believe you have
something important to say. Your impact is greater with a whisper than a roar.
15. Teach your players the wonderful
freedom that comes from learning to lose with grace and dignity and without excuse.
16. Winning is overrated, and the singular
quest for it leads to unhappiness.
17.
Keep things simple - everything added is something lost.
18.
Greeting each player personally at the beginning of training every day and saying
something sincerely positive publicly about each player during the training session
pays dividends.
19. Letting your
players know that you care for them, and that they can trust you, is critical.
20. Cervantes was right: "The
journey is more important than the arrival."
21.
Teach your players that peace of mind is a result of giving all that they have.
22. Let your actions coincide with
your beliefs.
23. Convey to your
players your love of the game.
24.
Don't posture - a confident person need not convince anybody of anything.
25. Don't allow one or two players
to ruin things for the rest of the players.
26.
The joy of winning fades immediately and precipitously.
27.
Have the courage to say "no" when the answer is "no".
28. Don't script your training sessions
down to the minute - allow room for spontaneity.
29.
Convey to your players the intrinsic honor that comes from training and playing
hard.
30. It's as important to
have your players work on their strengths as well as their weaknesses.
31.
Show some passion on occasion. They have to know you care.
32.
Don't overanalyze. Sometimes, as Freud told us, "A cigar is just a cigar."
33. Run an absolute meritocracy. The
better they play and the harder they work, the more they play.
34.
If you don't know, say so.
35.
Learning through self discovery is ego enhancing and more likely to last.
36. Introduce a service component to
your program - it's good for everybody.
37.
Even in these politically correct times, don't neglect the spiritual aspects of
coaching.
Rick
Burns at the time he produced these "truths" for coaches, was the soccer
coach at Gordon College.
