YBCA

“Coaching can be discouraging at times,” he told a clinic recently, “but far more often it is deeply satisfying and rewarding. Youngsters are naive, they are variable, they are sometimes obstinate and incomprehensible, but they are also warm, flexible, loyal and incurably optimistic. They lift us up when we are down, they deify us when we and all our peers know that we have feet of clay, and they constantly reaffirm our faith in the innate goodness of man.

“No matter how much we give of ourselves to our kids, we can never match by half what they give us in return. We tend to bellyache and despair at times. Some of us are petty and belittle our fellow coaches, and all of us by necessity are a little insane. But we should count our blessings because we in the coaching profession are the most fortunate people on the face of the earth.”