by admin | Jul 18, 2024 | Sports Articles
Barack Obama rose to the position of President of the United States of America on the back of a famous speech in New Hampshire in 2008, a speech that the American rapper will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas frontman, put to music with over thirty celebrity guest...
by admin | Jul 18, 2024 | Sports Articles
Many readers will be aware of the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled simply ‘If’ but may not have connected the advice given in the poem to be appropriate for coaches. The fact is, if we are to improve our players by improving them as people (as...
by admin | Jul 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
The first lady British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said that, “Being powerful is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!” The same is true for being successful, especially in sport; if we have to tell people...
by admin | Jul 18, 2024 | Sports Articles
We have previously considered how ambition can be dangerous and unhelpful to children if they, like the Shakespearian character Malvolio, are blinded by ambition and grandiose thoughts of themselves as well as the lure of greatness. He was the man in...
by admin | Jul 17, 2024 | Sports Articles
One of Shakespeare’s most quoted lines comes from his play ‘Twelfth Night’ when a lowly servant named Malvolio who has great aspirations of winning the hand of a beautiful lady in his master’s house, is encouraged by the alluring yet fateful words, “Some...
