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Sports Psychology Trains the Mind to Prepare for SuccessSports Success Key: Mental Preparation
Athletes today need to balance the stressors of life with the stressors of his/her sport and be able to handle the pressures of success and of failures or temporary defeats and setbacks. Mental preparation, derived from the field of sports psychology, is the key to preparing or "unlocking" the mind to achieve success. Mental preparation is training the mind for successful performance. "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Some of the components important in mental preparation include motivation, arousal, energy management, goal-setting, imagery, relaxation and energization, attention, stress management, self confidence, and mental toughness. These are components that can be addressed by a sports psychologist, or an experienced and well educated sports performance coach, performance scientist, or sports coach. Sports Psychology is a field of specialists that deals with helping athletes maximize performance by managing emotions and minimizing the psychological effects of injury or poor performance (Wikipedia: Sports Psychology). Please check out our Sports Training Resources for recommended sports psychology resource websites and recommended sports psychologists. Motivational Quotes to help you prepare your mind for success:"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse." "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything." --Napoleon Hill "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." "Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing." "Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win--essential to success." "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." "Only a strong tree can stand alone." "Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." "It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start." "The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings." "Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail." "The key to having a good attitude is the willingness to change. We are either the masters or the victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose to change." "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." |
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