A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

It takes Tice out of the position of being a head coach,

Hey, the head coach is over here.

Get out of yourself, get into the team.

This is the ultimate team game, but I make everyone else on my team better by making myself better.

The problem wasn't with the city, the sport, my teammates or my coach, even though I blamed all of them at one time or another. The problem was with me. But I didn't realize it back then because I hadn't been told that there was a clinical reason -- social anxiety disorder -- for everything odd I was feeling, everything from the depression to the shyness. I didn't understand that some of the things that were holding me back were chemical.