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Sports

8/5/24

Before Simone Biles jumped on the balance beam in Paris’ Bercy Arena on Tuesday, she appeared to whisper: “You got this. It’s your time.

”Completing a Yurchenko double pike is hard enough without looping self-criticism. Telling yourself you’re capable can calm your nerves and emulate how you feel in practice. Plus, talking to yourself in the third-person — like Biles telling herself, “You got this” — can actually decrease stress and improve your performance. – Megan Sauer

Sports
Sports

6/10/24

Give yourself permission to fail or else you will drive yourself crazy, always reaching for the concept of perfection that you will never achieve as a ballplayer. When we stop judging our failures as good or bad, we can finally start learning from them. – Mark Brooks

Sports
Sports

5/27/24

I have had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don’t work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great. – Bill Walton

Family, Sports

4/5/24

If it’s 3:00 in the afternoon and your child has a soccer game, you better be at the soccer game. Because I’m sure at 9:00 that night, you are going to be responding to all the emails you missed. – Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO

Sports

3/22/24

Just because you didn’t choose your life doesn’t mean you can’t take ownership of it. – Andre Agassi

Sports

2/7/24

I threw 78 in high school. I hit 92 during my freshman year in college, and today I can throw 98. If I can name one thing that contributed most to my increase in velocity, it would be long toss. – Billy Wagner

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