At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 7-year-old
hockey players aside and asked, "Do you understand what cooperation is?
What a team is?"

The little boy nodded in the affirmative.

"Do you understand that what matters is not whether we win or lose, but
how we play together as a team?"

The little boy nodded yes.

"So," the coach continued, "I'm sure you know, when a penalty is called,
you shouldn't argue, curse, attack the referee, or call him a
pecker-head."

Do you understand all that?"

Again the little boy nodded.

He continued, "And when I call you off the ice so that another boy gets
a chance to play, it's not good sportsmanship to call your coach 'a dumb
a--hole', is it?"

Again the little boy nodded.

"Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain all that to your
mother."