Sublime

With all his analyses of its mechanics, Bradley may have broken his game down into its components, but he has reassembled it so seamlessly that all the parts, and also his thousands of hours of practice, are concealed. He is as fluidly graceful as any basketball player I have ever seen.

there wasn’t anything I could do other than be consistent in my messaging, my practice, and my actions in proving to my athletes that I cared and had their best interests at heart.

Because mothers are our first coaches.

Why does this work? Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success is just showing up.

“Many of the finest athletes in the world,” Mr. Riley observed, “had less innate skill than their competition. But it was their exceptional dedication, commitment and drive to maximize whatever strengths they had that made them iconic.

That’s one of the important things about mentoring that I believe is often overlooked: Some lessons are learned more subconsciously than consciously. There are things I learned from watching my father that I purposely tried to copy in my own life. But other things I found were just kind of absorbed and became a part of my thinking and reactions wit

“No teacher is greater than one’s own experience.”