I came across this and found it interesting, what do think?

Why are you coaching?

This may be an easy question to answer for some.

Some may have genuine heartfelt reasons why they coach baseball. However, for some reason there is a large divide, a brick wall when it comes to coaching. A brick wall so tall and thick that it separates those that coach to assist and direct an athlete to become the best that they can become as athletes, building social, mental and physical skills and those that do it for personal status “self-worth” and don’t even get paid!

How many players could have continued to play the game only if it was not for some coach vacuuming the confidence right from the players’ heart and mind? Coaches manage personalities; they manage unique elements of the total team chemistry.

Coaching is a wonderful and rewarding privilege. However some treat it like it’s there god given right and they know everything there is to now about the sport from strength and conditioning to theory, whatever. It’s so true, some “humans” fear change. Perhaps this is due to lack of self worth.It’s funny though, those without the sense of self invite others with the creditability to come in and compliment the development process. Those that get their shirt in a knot, well it’s all about them, not the athlete.

The best thing a coach can do is provide a learning platform that enables an athlete to develop all their “one of a kind” human ability at a specific level of competition allowing that player to move forward in the next stage of the development process.

When the athlete looks back on the experience they can say, it was the best time of my life, I had fun, and I have no regrets! Perhaps this would stop the chain of events of some coaches who live vicariously though amateur sport with nothing but the win-win win at all cost directive.

- Author Unknown