The 5-6-7 Dad is a book by Paul Reddick that teaches dads how to use the game of baseball to get through to their sons despite the distractions of our fast-paced world.
Paul Reddick delivers on providing actionable items to unleash the full potential of your son in baseball and beyond.
This deck includes 10 quotes that stood out from the book.
5. Stand Out
Let them stand out, let them be themselves
and dont think what motivates others will
necessarily motivate them.
p 59
6. Sustain
Fear, intimidation, and manipulation are
horrible motivators. If you scare the crap
out of players, it will get them started, but it
wont sustain them.
p 60
7. Values
The values are going to be the navigation
that your families will live by and guide their
lives through.
p 72
8. Positivity
Try this, for every problem you discuss,
leave five positives in its place. For every
challenge, everything he does wrong, every
mistakeyou need five positives.
p 106
9. Afloat
Remember ships dont sink because of the
water around them. Ships sink because of
the water that gets in them. Make sure
youre not the one pulling the water into
your boat.
p 108
11. Words Matter
Watch your words very carefully, because
not only can words land, but they can
stickWords that land stick, words that
stick become feelings, and if we feel those
things long enough, they become beliefs.
p 117
12. If you havent picked up your copy, I highly recommend you get it ASAP.
To help our sons/daughters or players reach their potential, its important to reach ours as adults.
Youth are more than the sports they play, statistics, wins. Baseball is more than what they do on
the field. Combined what both are about is who these young men are in and away from sport.
The 5-6-7 Dad delivers on providing exercises to unleash the full potential of your son in Baseball
and beyond.
It will be up to you as the reader, to have the courage, commitment, and consistency to get
beyond the surface and apply the exercises.