A compass provides direction, but not directions. I am a coach, and the players I am responsible for depend on me to provide direction. Providing direction for marginalized youth can be …
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I have been developing elite baseball players for more than 25 years. My current and past players have received honors ranging from the “Gatorade High School Player of the Year,” the first pick in the …
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Potential is not a matter of where you start, but of how far you travel. As we have explored, the original usage of the word coach was a means of transportation. Back then—and still today—a good coach …
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Will Durant once said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." I define excellence as meeting expectations. I cannot make it any simpler than that. In order …
Robert H. Schuller once said, "Tough times never last, but tough people do." My hitters spend August through October trying new things to find out what works and what doesn't. November through …
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How do you eat an elephant? One piece at a time. This is an example of what coaches say when we are stuck on simplistic. To be simplistic is to treat complex issues and problems as if they are simpler …
