Young Athlete Motivator Gifts

Runt! You'll never make the team. We'll see! You can't even tie your shoelace! Great technique!

"I AM at my usual position."

Go! Means NOW!

'I've stepped on so many people for the last 20 years to get where I'm at, and I'm still only a middle manager.'

"I will always cheer you on, but I will never 'Woo-hoo!' you."

'Yes, Jenny, I know I'm always reminding the team to be good sports, but you really don't have to thank the ref after every call.'

"I'm Jackson, your new micro-manager."

"Winning isn't everything, Josh. Not being the reason your team loses is everything."

"Best project manager we ever had."

Dedication to excellence....

"Gracie, I'm proud of you. Your team lost, but you tried your best and that's all that counts."

"Look, I know the other team is taller than we are...but I'm pretty sure this isn't allowed."

"Hold on, hun... I'm just saying, losing four ounces in a month is better than gaining four ounces in a month!"

'Great idea, Philpott. Wish you'd thought of it.'

'Now then you two, you can't both be Australia - one of you has to be England!'

Office Politics

'...and if you guys keep screwing up, I'm gonna have to start kicking some butt!'

"I need to buy a faster fastball."

A boy with a football

Multisports

"Why don't you try learning from your own mistakes?"

Mentoring Unit: 'Go on! You can do it! You can be a mentor!'

Suggestion box: 'Build a bigger Complaints box'.

'You're my best employee. You're punctual, ambitious and precise. The problem is ... it scares the devil out of my other employees.'

Man on a treadmill desperately trying to get at a carrot dangling infront of him from a stick tied to his back

'Young players have a tendency to forget fundamentals over the winter.'

'I'm the new kid on the team. Where's my signing bonus?'

"Baseball is boring."

"I have goals in life. Just last week I scored three goals!"

'Nice level swing, Billy. Just meet the ball. Don't try to kill it, Billy.'

'Youth Baseball Clinic: How To Develop A Deep-Rooted Hatred Of The Media.'

"Benjamin, we've discovered, is quite gifted at third base."

"Sure, Pop, I see the ball—what I don't see are incentives."

'I can just see him twenty years down the road pitching for the Giants.'

"Can you run that past me again, Watson - you seem to have lost me."