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I once heard the Tennessee football coach tell his team to play with "Relentless Abandonment".

I spent a great deal of time looking up the definitions of these words and trying to determine their meanings (other than the obvious ones that come to mind).

The best I could come up with is this:

Play the game like your a "possessed madman" willing to sacrifice your life for the victory!

Knowledge is Power! Thank you Mavens and HSBBWEB!
Sorry mittman , but I don't like the second one. I don't think as a coach that we should suggest anything is boring. If you love the sport, even doing "find the 4 seam grip" 10000 times should not be boring.

I'm reminded of a player from before I started coaching telling me that he hated baseball practice. I knew the coach and the practices were nothing out of the ordinary. When asked why he hated practice he said"I just want to play games". This was a Varsity player. I told him maybe baseball wasn't his sport then. The next spring he went out for tennis and next was an all state tennis player who loved tennis. I know they did stuff that I would consider Boring in tennis practice.

Basketball Players dribble thousands of times a night=Boring. 50 free throws a night=boring. To me anyway. But not to the basketball player.

I say this because I am helping out with my sons 4th grade basketball team and one of the first things the head coach said was "You have to learn the boring stuff to be good." Wow! I thought, "He just told kids who were brand new to the sport(4th grade is when they start here)and all enthused about basketball that it's boring."

I would not suggest this is on the same level with "Just don't walk this guy". They both plant the seed.

Having said that. I did like and appreciate your ideas for group skill drills that you posted in the other post. I didn't mean to blast you here, it's just that sometimes we need to see another perspective.
coach i can see where you are coming from. but however, i know that high school players (no matter how much they love the game) think soft toss (ex.) is boring at times. so this tells them to overcome it if they want to get better (which in turn makes it important= not boring)

but hey i can understand where you are coming from. i am not so sure about planting the seed thing.... we shouldn't teach kids about birth control because it will want to make them have *** right????? Smile just kidding (we just had that argument with our system) like they don't think about it 98% of the time already.

hey you have to learn on this website to have thick skin, if you are going to express your opinion, so i didn't feel like you blasted me.
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Chicks & mittman - Thanks. I teach Economics...can you tell?
I love quotes like this. Here are a few more I've used:

1- All for one, and one for (place a picture of a baseball here).

2- One Goal, One Heartbeat

3- Whatever It Takes

4- WHO'S NEXT?
Building a Tradition One Day At A Time

5- From the Baseball Coaches Bible (best coaching book I've ever read - buy it soon!):

Picture of a baseball with the word "TEAM"
below it - a small baseball with the word "ME" on it
Since baseball is fundametally built around failure, ours takes care of any reason, excuese etc.

"Excellence is Expected!"

We do cite other often:

"Repetition is no fun but it's the reason we have won."

"Take one day off and you know it. TAke two days off and your opponent knows it. TAke three days off and everyone knows it."

"In the warrious code there's no surrender. Though your body says quit, your spirt cries never. Deep in your soul's an undying ember that knows its you against you. It's the paradox that drives us all."

"There comes a time when you have to stop dreaming of the man you want to be and start being the man you have become." Bruce Springsteen
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1. It takes no talent to hustle. (had to repeat it, Coach May)

2. Don't complain about the bad hops...anyone can catch the good ones.

3. Outwork your opponent. (gets through the "boredom")

4. Win every inning.

5. No matter how good you think you are, there is ALWAYS someone better.

6. If playing baseball were easy, there wouldn't be any S0CC3R players. (or lacrosse, etc.)

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