What motivates a team? Why do school pupils want to play hockey? What makes first team players want to spend their spare time playing Hockey? Motive: Latin for move, seen as a cause for behaviour that energise, direct and sustain a person's behaviour.(Ruben and McNiel, 1983) Being motivated is all about knowing what you want and believing in your ability to achieve it. It is very difficult to have motivation without purpose - that just …showed first 75 words of 626 total…

…showed last 75 words of 626 total…by their goals. To succeed in their own goals, their team's achievements and their coaches wishes. These all contribute to how a player is motivated, these factors allow a player to be motivated to play their sport. This factor is shown in both teams, under 15s and first 11, although the goals and ambitions are different this factor acts as an impulse to play. set goals and ambitions are what motivates a player to play hockey.