Anson Dorrance famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels
-- Anson Dorrance

#Volleyball #Player #Practice
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Sports #Player #Keys
One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Girl #Senior #Sports
What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Softball #Sports #Motivation
What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Giving Up #Mean #Winning
There is no better coach than the bench.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Benches #Coaches
You can never be fit enough for this game.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Motivational #Games #Coaching
If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire
-- Anson Dorrance

#Soccer #Volleyball #Self
The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival
-- Anson Dorrance

#Volleyball #Athlete #Thinking
Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Sports #Strong #Team
When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.
-- Anson Dorrance

#Balls #Mia

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