Harte: Questions and Answers

LIAM HORAN: What are the key issues when trying to motivate a talented, but temperamental, player?

MICKEY HARTE: The key issue is to try to understand every player we encounter. What somebody might think of as unusual could be perfectly normal for someone else. Whose normality are we talking about here?

Ultimately you are talking about what is viable for the parameters of the team. We have to do what is required for the betterment of the team. This is part of the process of learning, and that involves understanding every player. This is something I would have found more difficult a number of years ago.