I wanted to include a quote from Charles Barkley as one of this months “Aphorisms”. Problem was, he said so many funny, cool, wise, obnoxious, opinionated and crazed things that I couldn’t just stop at one. Solution? Create an entire story about the wit and wisdom of Charles Wade Barkley. One of the best! Charles Barkley, one of the greatest NBA players of all time, was not … [Read more...]
Nietzsche on becoming a great athlete!
Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, played as the starting number ten for the German national football team when he was only eighteen years old! He wanted to play rugby but, unlike Great Britain, France and Italy, Germans have always turned their noses up at such barbaric pastimes as “rugga.” Fred, therefor, never got the chance to live out his burning desire to play in the front … [Read more...]
Scorers and a play-makers. Is there is difference?
When coaches talk about the difference between a number 9 and a number 10 in soccer, a point-guard and a shooting-guard in basketball, a fly-half and a centre-three-quarter in rugby, a quarter-back and a running-back in American Football or a goal-attack and a goal-shooter in netball the focus tends to be on the differences in either the skill sets or the physical attributes of … [Read more...]
High Performance Teams versus Winning Culture versus What’s Next?
There is no way of making vomiting sound like success. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing. Cue the train wreck that is the Australian Rugby team or Australian rugby in general. Yep, it’s time to talk about things people talk about when they win...or on occasions, lose, and keep losing, … [Read more...]
A boy and his team – coach makes his mark early!
The muscle-bound sports master with the short-back-and-sides haircut and sergeant-major booming voice lumbered across the playground straight towards the group of eleven-year old kids who were having their regular daily lunch-time soccer ball juggling session. “Have we got a soccer team?”, he bellowed in the general direction of the kids. The group of half a dozen … [Read more...]