COACHING PHILOSOPHY
We will relentlessly pursue perfection. In the process, if we do not achieve perfection, we will achieve excellence.
Everything in life worthwhile requires hard work.
We learn to kick and head in our mother’s womb.
Professional means total commitment to victory.
Great teams transition their way.
#1 Defensive Objective is not to let them score.
#2 Defensive Objective is to get the ball.
#1 Offensive Objective is to score.
#2 Offensive Objective is to keep the ball.
Blend your personality into the team’s personality.
Communication is spiritual, visual and verbal.
I demand a commitment to excellence and to victory.
Athletes have a moral obligation to develop their gift and they also have a moral obligation to develop their teammates’ gifts.
Fatigue makes us cowards.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The will to excel and to win endures.
Play hard, but clean, to win.
Play each game as if it is the last game you will ever play.
We need love for each other. Love endures forever.
Winning is like a wild fire.
Winning is like a snowball down hill.
The heart of success is preparation.
Playing soccer, one creates the possible, the probable, the beautiful and the magical.
Love, honor and duty endure.
Kids need heroes.
Eleven for one and one for eleven. Play the best eleven.
Like a solid house, a soccer player needs four supporting walls:
Conditioning, technique, tactics and psychology.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Play as if you were to die tomorrow.
True athletes should have character not be a character.
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Do something for your fellow man everyday and do not look for repay.
Acquire peace of mind by becoming the best that you are capable of becoming.
If you keep busy learning the tricks of the trade you may never learn the trade.
You are a failure when you blame others.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Need character to stay at the top.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
Winning is not everything, it is the only way. But for kids, winning means: having fun, conditioning, being with friends, sportsmanship, effort, learning a sport, etc.
Speed is physical, technical and tactical.
Play fast; do not run fast.
The highest play is simplicity, that is, one touch.
Talent is the ability to escape or execute faster than others under pressure from opponent, space and time.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
The game is the best teacher.
Counter-attack in less than 10-12 seconds.
Do not give the ball away.
The game demands and great players respond.
Play the game with passion not fanaticism.
A few key plays decide games.
Winning is an all-time matter.
The more one practices, the more one eliminates mistakes.
You cheat in practice, you cheat in the game and you will be disgraced in life.
When you enter the race, race to win.
Psychologically guard your heart. Your successes are the three A’s: Activation, Anxiety and Aggression.
Dedication means the Spartan Way…
In practice, combine technique, tactics, physiology and psychology.
Both in offense and defense attempt to achieve tactical superiority, that is, numbers-up.
The KISS principle is, “Keep It Simple (Stupid).”
Teamwork is thousands of fish swimming in harmony or thousands of birds in flight.
Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best, both for yourself and for others.
Attitude is being exhausted on the field, knowing you did your best.
Children are vast fields to plant beautiful gardens.
Soccer is the smartest game. Do we know everything about the smartest game on earth?
Look for the significance in the insignificant.
Look for the unseen, beyond the seen.
Look with a sense of numinous.
As you advance, realize the oneness and otherness of your teammates.
Look for the unknown creation.
Eleven candle flames create more light!
Have distinction on the team, but no separation.
How do you live out eleven unity?
Exercise your free will for the good of the team.
Beyond the stereotype, realize the uniqueness in your teammates.
Through your play, you are a priest who praises your Creator.
In whose image are you playing?
The way to freedom is to perfect the body but subdue the flesh.
Speak through silence, at times; silence speaks volumes.
Find peace in the silence of the noise.
Find peace in the mind of the team.
It is necessary to return to yourself to ascend.
Take the soul of your team into your soul.
Players leave other sports to play soccer, they must experience joy and freedom.
There are moments of time wherein time you experience eternity.
Keep the ball rolling and tell me how you lived.
To ascend, study the Way. Devote yourself to the Holy. Masters were once students.
Bruce Lee said, “Knowing is not enough, you must do; willing is not enough, you must apply.”
Pele said, “Soccer is the most beautiful game.”
John Wooden said, “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
Vince Lombardi said, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”
Rinus Michels said, “Soccer is a constant possession game; a constant transition game.” He said, “What is possession without penetration, without scoring?” He also said, “Always go to the ball.”
Socrates, the wisest man, said, “I know nothing.”
Jesus Christ, the Messiah, for others a prophet or a charismatic, the night before his crucifixion, washed His disciples’ feet.