You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.
The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.
The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.
The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'
