Pastoral Resources

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.