COACH SAYS... Paperback – September 8, 2025

COACH SAYS… For Coaches of Young Athletes and the Athletes They Coach!! Motivation…Inspiration…PositivityCoach Says…is a family thing. Lou Vickery and Bill Vickery are brothers. Glenn Vickery is their first cousin. Earl Miller’s wife, Rita, is the sister of Lou and Bill. Earl and Bill Etheridge's mother was a Vickery. A notable sidebar is that all six of the relatives are in at least one Hall of Fame.Glenn Vickery, Earl Miller, and Earl Etheridge, all retired, are Hall of Fame Coaches and Administrators. Glenn and Earl Miller won state championships in Alabama. Glenn won four (4) in football and one (1) in basketball at Mobile Christian and Daphne, Alabama. Earl won ten (10) state championships in baseball at G.W. Long High School in Alabama. Earl’s son, Drew, who replaced him as coach at G.W. Long, has won five (5) state championships in baseball. Another Vickery cousin, Doug, won a state championship in football at Flomaton High School in Alabama. Mike Vickery, Glenn’s son, has been a high school head coach at two schools, with 25 plus years of experience.Earl Etheridge coached for years in Georgia before becoming affiliated with the Georgia State Athletic Association. He is still active in administration. He was recognized by the National High School Athletic Association in 2024 for his administrative work.Just for the record, Lou and Bill Vickery’s background included years as professional baseball players and coaches. Glenn, Earl Miller, and Bill Etheridge played pro baseball as well. Do you think these quys may know something about motivation and inspiration?The authors have drawn upon their more than one hundred (150) years of involvement in sports, at both the amateur and professional levels, in structuring the book. COACH SAYS…has combined the talents and vast experiences of the authors to create an informative and inspirational book. The motivational, inspirational, and positive messages in the book are a mixture of works from many sources that primarily apply to dealing with the "what" and "why," instead of the "how" of sports.The authors’ mission is to provide coaches and athletes with the necessary tools to bridge the gap between their current and desired state on their sports journey. They strive to deliver competitors from all walks of sports—and with a myriad of aspirations—the necessary ingredients to develop a winning mindset. The authors create a deep-felt desire to explore in greater depth the mental, psychological, and emotional factors that ultimately define what it takes to become the elite athlete one may have only dreamed of becoming.There are over 750 messages and lessons in COACH SAYS…The authors incorporate their own winning messages and those of successful coaches and athletes from the world of sports…and other individuals who know what it takes to succeed at any endeavor.EXAMPLES“The will to win matters… but thewill to prepare to win matters more.”-Paul (Bear) Bryant, HOF College Football CoachNo heart…little chance. In sports, “heart” is the strongest muscle.Toughness is in your soul and spirit, not in your muscles.More games are won or lost on the parched soil of the practice field than they areon the green grass of the playing field.”-Vince Lombardi, HOF Pro Football Coach Read more