While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.
You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.
The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.