Coaches have a unique opportunity to provide children with a caring relationship and help instill important life skills.
Coaches serve as mentors by providing an ongoing relationship, an aspect of life every child needs.
And through sports, coaches can help kids can learn teamwork, discipline, dedication, focus, organization, leadership and personal excellence as well as skills. I often told the players that, next to my own flesh and blood, they were the closest to me. There was a great deal of love involved in my coaching. Wooden considered his position a sacred trust to help mold character, instill productive principles and values, and provide a positive example. Therefore it is the obligation of that leader to treat such responsibility as a grave concern.