Pastoral Resources

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.