coach

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.

Life__ best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

People don__ need you to fix them, they are not broken, just serve them.

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

FLETCHER: The truth is I don__ think people understand what it is I did at Shaffer. I wasn__ there to conduct. Any idiot can move his hands and keep people in tempo. No, it__ about pushing people beyond what__ expected of them. And I believe that is a necessity. Because without it you__e depriving the world of its next Armstrong. Its next Parker. Why did Charlie Parker become Charlie Parker, Andrew? ANDREW: Because Jo Jones threw a cymbal at him.FLETCHER: Exactly. Young kid, pretty good on the sax, goes up to play his solo in a cutting session, fucks up -- and Jones comes this close to slicing his head off for it. He__ laughed off-stage. Cries himself to sleep that night. But the next morning, what does he do? He practices. And practices and practices. With one goal in mind: that he never ever be laughed off-stage again. A year later he goes back to the Reno, and he plays the best motherfucking solo the world had ever heard. Now imagine if Jones had just patted young Charlie on the head and said __ood job._ Charlie would__e said to himself, __ell, shit, I did do a good job,_ and that__ be that. No Bird. Tragedy, right? Except that__ just what people today want. The Shaffer Conservatories of the world, they want sugar. You don__ even say __utting session_ anymore, do you? No, you say __am session_. What the fuck kind of word is that? Jam session? It__ a cutting session, Andrew, this isn__ fucking Smucker__. It__ about weeding out the best from the worst so that the worst become better than the best. I mean look around you. $25 drinks, mood lighting, a little shrimp cocktail to go with your Coltrane. And people wonder why jazz is dying. Take it from me, and every Starbucks jazz album only proves my point. There are no two words more harmful in the entire English language than __ood job_.

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

When all has been said and done,When all the wealth has been amassed,When all the battles have been fought and won,When all the monuments have been built,All that remains is love - love for the fellow man....

If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day_!

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.