Meet the Coach: Orr Gottlieb – Tel Aviv Comrades
Name: Orr Gottlieb
Team you coach: Tel Aviv Comrades (Cadets and Juniors)
Years as a coach: Way too many but not enough
Your first baseball experience: Wow… it had to do with a ball and bat
You’re a fan of: The Atlanta Braves
The player you most admire and why: Those who work hard, sometimes being talented is not enough you got to work hard to get what you want.
Your most memorable baseball moment as a coach: National Team (JNT) – seeing the players working hard and encouraging one each other; Tel-Aviv – when they first asked me for some strength and conditioning – now I can’t compete with them.
If you weren’t coaching baseball, you’d be…: Ah… working High tech.
Your top coaching tip: Throw every day, and when you throw treat it as a throwing exercise not a warm up. Stay focused throw to a target.
Your coaching mantra: Process over Product, we (Tel Aviv Comrades) don’t care if we win or not, be we do care about working hard, and the results will be there!
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