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Athletes make excellence happen; Coaches make excellence possible.
Frank Dick
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Frank Dick
@frankdickcoach
Frank Dick is a former Athletics Coach and has been Leading Motivational & Business Speaker for the last 25 years.
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- Thankyou Athletics Weekly! Can’t believe this video has had over 522K views. Please keep sharing 👏🏼What's the best coaching pep talk you've ever had? This advice on winning from the legendary @frankdickcoach will take some beating.
- One of the biggest errors we can make in athlete development is to give beginner athletes to beginner coaches. They need the best coaches of beginner athletes. It’s a specialist coaching area and we must prepare coaches accordingly.
- Beginner athletes should not be coached by beginner coaches. They should be coached by the best coaches in coaching beginners. Getting it right from the start for the athlete is smarter than having to put it right later.
- Athletes who win consistently in their developing years cannot learn resilience. Learning to bounce back from failure is critical preparation for the shark infested waters of senior competition. Coaches must create winning and losing learning experiences.
- Systems, Tactics and Strategies count for nothing if the basic skills are not brilliant and robust under pressure.
- No matter how hard the training, go the distance: See it through. If you quit in training you’ll quit when things get tough in the arena. Giving in once can be the start of a bad habit.
- While you can be taught the science of coaching in books, lecture courses and on line, you can only learn the art through coaching itself and life experience.
- The biggest mistake we can make in the performance pathway is to have beginners coached by beginner coaches. They need the best coaches at coaching beginners. That is a specific skill set.
- Coaching beginners requires as much specialist expertise as coaching elite athletes. The coach is preparing them either to pursue future high performance or to live an active healthful life. That’s a big responsibility and not one for beginner coaches
- As coach your goal is for athletes to take ownership of their performance in sport and in life. First, you are the light to guide them; next you teach them how to create their own light; next you are the mirror reflecting their light; finally you step out of the light.
- What you accept in training is all you can expect in the arena. We want excellence in the arena, so it’s excellence we need in training.
- The process in guiding an athlete to the greatest performance they are capable of, is mostly about getting rid of the things that will prevent it. That greatness is always there just waiting to be freed
