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65. Relating To Your Competition or How To Avoid Being Your Own Worst Enemy

Posted in Being Your Best, tagged , , on September 28, 2010 | Comments Off

In previous posts I have written about the great sportsmen I was so lucky to have competed against in my skeleton career.  Because they were champions in their own right, they knew the value of facing a great competitor in drawing out great performances in themselves (2. Emulating Gregor Staehli).  I was very grateful to [...]

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64. Self-Awareness, Part 3.

Posted in Self-awareness, tagged , on September 20, 2010 | Comments Off

As I tweeted the other day (@sportatitsbest), I’ve only just started Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open, and I’ve already found a reference to what I believe is an extremely key skill that all athletes need to develop if they want to reach the top.  Of course I’m talking about today’s topic, self-awareness.  Here’s the quote: “Butterflies [...]

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63. Patrick Anderson – Part 2

Posted in Being Your Best, tagged , on September 13, 2010 | Comments Off

This is a really interesting part of the interview in which Patrick talks about being a Paralympian and always wondering how he would have measured up in a more mainstream sport.  He can’t help but wonder what level he would have achieved had he played able-bodied basketball or hockey and I think that’s probably a [...]

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62. The Value of a Medal – Part 2

Posted in The Big Picture, tagged , on September 7, 2010 | Comments Off

Sport is about the challenge.  My all-time favorite quote in terms of creating a mindset for me in my athletic career was from iconic Olympic rower, Marnie McBean: “My impression of Olympic gold medalists plummeted when I won one myself.” The point is that Marnie, before she won her first gold, assumed that it was [...]

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