Posted by: mindoversports on: September 27, 2007
And it’s the healthiest thing she could have done for herself. Not only will speaking up enhance her own performance in her sport, but if she had kept those feelings bottled up inside herself, she could have actually become ill. Athletes who have a high sense of self-worth, such as Hope Solo, speak their piece [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: September 24, 2007
Many professional athletes will tell you that much of their success was the result of having had a loving, nurturing mother, father or grandparent. In the case of Tiger Woods, it was primarily his mother, Kutilda Woods, who had a profound influence on him as a young boy. In an interview I conducted a few [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: September 24, 2007
Most people don’t realize there’s a relationship between Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Donovan McNabb’s comment on HBO that white quarterbacks “don’t get criticized as much” as their African-American counterparts, and his performance against the Detroit Lions, when he passed for 381 yards and four touchdowns. When athletes withhold (or suppress) their feelings it’s a form of [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: September 6, 2007
When a male athlete has a high sense of self-worth (high self-esteem), when he is loved and his life is in harmony, when he is not suppressing (withholding) his feelings and emotions, and if he is highly spiritual, he will actually create positive events in his life on and off the field of competition. And [...]