I was raised to face any challenge.
Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it's also something a coach can create or facilitate.
It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.
Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.
To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.
The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.
At a youth soccer game you'll probably hear parents and coaches on the sidelines yelling, 'Pass the ball! Pass the ball!'. . . When we continually tell our young players to pass the ball, we're not allowing them to develop their full potential, especially those who have the ability to take their opponents on and beat them one-on-one. As a result, we run the risk of diminishing a player's artistry and potential.
Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.