As a coach you want your athletes to be motivated to play, but more importantly motivated to win. A player may have the best ability and skill that you look for in an athlete, but if they are not motivated to play than they are worthless to you as a coach. That when a coach needs to become a psychologists and figure out a way to get that athlete ready to play. There are many …showed first 75 words of 530 total…

…showed last 75 words of 530 total…same, another way to self motivate the athlete is have them set goals for them self each week. If they achieve their goals than they get more confidence to play and the more confidence a player has the more they want to play. Motivation can be influenced in all kinds of ways, but as a coach you need to figure out how it can be down for an individual and probably more importantly the team.