MatchQuarters Reading List - May '25
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“If you’re afraid to get fired, you’re always going to tell the player what she wants to hear…”
Inside Pete Carroll's weekly gig as a USC professor
“Resilience is about having hope. If you've lost hope, you ain't bouncing back. You're done.”
“Whose approval am I auditioning for?”
*I had a head coach tell me once that they thought I was always ‘performing’ when I coached. That always stuck with me because it made me stop and think: Am I doing this for the benefit of the players or myself, or am I putting on a performance for someone I’m trying to impress? Someone who isn’t even here.
Rassie: Stories of Life and Rugby by Johan Erasmus (Springboks Head Coach)
“…if you don’t talk with the players regularly, there’s a lack of communication and they don’t have a chance to discuss issues that are bothering them. They start imagining things, and soon the devil is in their head…”
**One of the big things Coach Rassie believed in was not having one-on-one meetings with players. Unless deeply personal, conversations were had in front of the team because there was no narrative or room for guessing by players not in the conversation. No telephone. Everyone knew where they stood.
Training Days Alabama - Kobe Bryant
“…you have to be impatient, but you can’t get frustrated.”
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