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If they’re kids with aspirations to play professionally, they can’t be satisfied with the practice standards of their hometowns, where a girl who hits balls for an hour every day is considered a hard worker. They have to be mindful that
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“Exceptional people really do come to believe that the journey is more important than the destination. It’s another way of saying that the effort is more important than the outcome.”
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“So why should someone bother trying to be exceptional? Most people don’t. Most people never commit themselves to doing anything that offers worse than fifty-fifty odds of success. Most people choose to live lives that are as safe and secure as they can make them. But then, most people don’t really think through the human situation. We’re blessed with one life, and that’s all we can be certain about. They take that one life they’re given and they drift through it. Maybe they’re satisfied with that.”
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is a case study of selected discipline.”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
“But no good will ever come of whining about competition. If you’re going to be exceptional, you must embrace it.”
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“Once an individual has a philosophy, he should be ready to answer the question “What if I fail?” He should understand that over the span of a lifetime, the only lasting failure is the failure to try.”
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
― How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
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