A Coach's Diary

“That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job.” - Landon Donovan How do you keep your love and passion for something while sacrificing and working as hard as it takes to be great at it? Success requires a lot. It requires a lot of time, energy, and effort. It requires so much, that the task of becoming great can steal the love and joy you have for it. Think about it. You usually start doing something because you enjoy it. Then you want to do it more because you start to really like it. Then, you get good at it, and want to go from good to great. But that transition is when it stops being fun for a lot of people and becomes a job. Landon Donovan has scored as many goals as any man who has played soccer for our US Men’s National team. He once said, “That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job.” How do you keep the...