Joe Ehrmann Quotations

Our job as coaches is to love you. Your job as players is to love each other.

What would happen in Sacramento if we raised a whole generation of boys to love and be loved, to connect? There is the potential to spark life into these kids. The potential to change all of Sacramento by teaching kids to become part of a team and a community.

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Sports have become a defining attribute for men, unfortunately.

Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.

I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.

It comes down to this: What kind of father are you? What kind of husband are you? What kind of coach or teammate are you? What kind of son are you? What kind of friend are you? Success comes in terms of relationships.

The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'...

At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.