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Inside the Mind of a Winner: Train to Dominate with Sports Psychologist Bill Beswick · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So that you get athletes who just turn up. They'll
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  Speaker 1: turn up, they'll do the requisite amount of work, but
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Athletes will turn up to compete. They put
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  Speaker 1: a bit more effort in. They try, they try to
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  Speaker 1: be the best amongst their group. Then there's the athletes
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  Speaker 1: who trained to win. They train every day, every session
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  Speaker 1: so that they win on match night. And then there
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  Speaker 1: are just those very few players who trained to dominate.
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  Speaker 1: They trained so hard that winning is inevitable on race night.
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  Speaker 2: The English coach is Bill Bettick from Manchester. The side
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  Speaker 2: of yours is unbeaten bass part. You think that they
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  Speaker 2: can maintain it tonight, well they won't be the ones
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  Speaker 2: and trying.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good record to have and it's a tough
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  Speaker 3: one to maintain New Zealand and New Zealand, but it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a great game there.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Oil these four teams have been remarkably close.
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  Speaker 2: Were you confident at any stage that you could win it?
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  Speaker 3: I think you give it your best shot, a bit
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  Speaker 3: like Rocky one, two and three. You go out there,
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  Speaker 3: you prepare and you give it your best shot. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we said today where a team meeting, we
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  Speaker 3: said we're going to give our best shot.
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  Speaker 1: And my three questions are what do you want? How
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  Speaker 1: badly do you want it? And how much are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to suffer? And very often everything revolves around the
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  Speaker 1: first question, what do you want? Because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are unclear what they want from life.
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  Speaker 4: They don't sit down and think through.
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  Speaker 1: We are writing our own life story every day, and
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  Speaker 1: yet we don't think about it.
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  Speaker 4: Who do we want to be, Where do we want
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  Speaker 4: to live?
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  Speaker 1: What life do we want to meet? When we've finished
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  Speaker 1: our life, come to the end of our life and
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  Speaker 1: look back, what do we want to say that we've done?
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 4: What do you want? Is a very powerful question.
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  Speaker 1: And then if an athlete says I want to be
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  Speaker 1: the best, bill fine, how badly do you want it?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's going to You've got to pay a price
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  Speaker 1: to be the best. The best pay a big price.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to work harder, you've got to commit more,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to take more responsibility, you have to deal
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  Speaker 1: with more ups and downs.
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  Speaker 4: And if we can deal with that question, how much
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  Speaker 4: you're wanting to suffer?
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  Speaker 1: Because I work with gold medal champions and they suffer
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  Speaker 1: every day. They work enormously hard, They sacrifice enormous things
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  Speaker 1: in order to get that success. I wake up every
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  Speaker 1: morning and don't let the old man in. And that's life.
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  Speaker 1: We wake up every morning and make a decision who
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be. I've got Parkinson's as it is,
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  Speaker 1: so getting up in the morning is not so easy
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  Speaker 1: for me. Getting dressed so easy. I have to make
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  Speaker 1: a decision. Am I going to be a fighter today?
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  Speaker 1: Or am I going to be a victim. There's a
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  Speaker 1: great phrase, genetics deals the cards. Environment plays the hand.
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  Speaker 1: So genetics and your background just influence your disposition to
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  Speaker 1: success in various activities. Another great thing I wrote once
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  Speaker 1: was there's a thousand excuses but not a single reason.
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  Speaker 1: I did that with Bristol Bears Rugby last yes season.
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  Speaker 4: They loved it.
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  Speaker 1: When you step into the challenge zone, the number of
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  Speaker 1: excuses for getting out backed into your comfort zone from
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  Speaker 1: their multipliers. I'm too tired, it's too difficult, I'm having
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  Speaker 1: a bad day. Nobody likes me, and so I would
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  Speaker 1: teach them to face up to those excuses and refuse
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  Speaker 1: to be a victim and teach them a fighter mentality about.
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  Speaker 4: All those things may be there, but I'm still going
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  Speaker 4: to do it. I'm going to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: So a thousand excuses but not one reason not to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: And even if you don't achieve at the highest level,
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  Speaker 1: you may not have the same genetics disposition as somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: But there's an awful lot of players playing in the
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  Speaker 1: premier league football in this country who a B for
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  Speaker 1: talent not quite as genetically superior, but a for attitude
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  Speaker 1: and attitude is something anybody can have.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody.
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  Speaker 2: There's a time with a lot of talent, but one
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  Speaker 2: thing you haven't spent a great deal of time with.
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  Speaker 2: How difficult is it to get cohesion between a lot
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  Speaker 2: of individuals who are very talented on their own.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's my most difficult StAst because with the national
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  Speaker 3: team you have so little time to prepare them, and
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  Speaker 3: like a club situation when you have them week in
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  Speaker 3: week out, and I have five days with the boys
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  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles to get them ready and playing together.
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  Speaker 3: But when it does happen, and it did happen against Canada,
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  Speaker 3: they become quite effective force and they will go to
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  Speaker 3: the steel and make sure you come out to me,
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  Speaker 3: Sueve the ball get to fall.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you in control, You in control of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: It's your mind, so you decide what you think you
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  Speaker 1: can decide to improve your attitude.
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  Speaker 4: Any day it's going to offer well basketball.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to come out gold medal, which was the
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  Speaker 1: first medal that England and ever won basketball and that
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  Speaker 1: was very good.
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  Speaker 4: So talk to my captain every week, Marshall.
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  Speaker 5: Here's another example of it. The whistle blows, the timeout
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  Speaker 5: has taken and half the New Zealand team arguing with
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  Speaker 5: the referee while England is talking with their coach deciding
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  Speaker 5: what to do in the last twenty second.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very impressed with that young man. He is going
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  Speaker 6: to be coaching in England for a long long time.
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  Speaker 6: To calm Bill, outstanding discipline is the name of the
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  Speaker 6: game at this level, isn't it? Bolved twenty seconds left
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  Speaker 6: of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Race Day is fun because there's a crowd as cameras
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  Speaker 1: is your family and your friends and it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: do an What they don't see, the people in the
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  Speaker 1: arena don't see is you on your own at six
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, working out, sweating, struggling. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes champions, the ability to motivate themselves to do
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  Speaker 1: the work on their own that leads to success in
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  Speaker 1: the arena. There's the physical element. Who's going to take
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  Speaker 1: care of your strength, speed, stamina, nutrition, sleep, health. There's
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  Speaker 1: the technical element and then you've got to have the
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  Speaker 1: tactical intelligence to compete.
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  Speaker 4: Follow a plan.
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  Speaker 1: You know your position on the field, know how you
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  Speaker 1: relate to the members of the team, know how to
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  Speaker 1: deal with certain situations in game one new up or
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  Speaker 1: one now down. And then there's the mental element that's
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  Speaker 1: building the confidence and belief that you are a champion,
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  Speaker 1: that you can do this. So it's it's that that
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  Speaker 1: change from being in the dressing room to comfort zone
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  Speaker 1: to being in the tunnel before a big game, breathing
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  Speaker 1: in to go on the field and believing and having
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  Speaker 1: the confidence to do what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Was the team game here very much as I'm the
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  Speaker 2: dog England. They weren't rated very highly before the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Thus far, everybody has been extremely impressed with the team.
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  Speaker 2: I had impressed with you. How do you see your
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  Speaker 2: future as English coach?
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  Speaker 3: If you who's whine Well, first of all, we prefer
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  Speaker 3: to be under dugs. It's a nice sneaky position. I
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  Speaker 3: think there's a start of what I'm hoping to achieve
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  Speaker 3: with the national team, and tonight's going to give me
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  Speaker 3: a lot more evident and on what kind of progress
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  Speaker 3: we're making, because this is a real precious situation. But
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  Speaker 3: what is basically be quite a young teen.
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  Speaker 1: If I teach the athlete how to avoid victim mentality,
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  Speaker 1: how to slip into fighting, how to transfer to fighting mentality,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have that in life. When I got
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  Speaker 1: diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, I was driving back from the
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  Speaker 1: hospital with my wife and she rang and my second son,
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  Speaker 1: Philip in London and said, Philip, your dad's got Parkinson's.
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  Speaker 1: He's gone into victim mentality. And I heard this booming
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  Speaker 1: laugh at the the end of the phone, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll ring back in ten minutes. And he'd rang back
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  Speaker 1: and he and his wife, Haley, had googled Parkinson's, researched
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  Speaker 1: it and said Dad will be up this week. It
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  Speaker 1: was Thursday, and he said we'll be up this weekend
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  Speaker 1: with the boys. We have a family action plan meeting
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  Speaker 1: on handling Parkinson's. And I was straight back into fighter mentality.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a very big crossover between situations in sport
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  Speaker 1: from situations in life. I mean, in a sense, we're
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  Speaker 1: all high performers. We all step up every day to
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  Speaker 1: earn a living, to maintain relationships, to take the responsibility
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  Speaker 1: of owning property, to raise children. We're all high performers.
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  Speaker 1: So the lessons of my high performance in sport carry
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  Speaker 1: across into life. It's quite difficult, actually, because I deal
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  Speaker 1: with intangibles. They're non measurable, so it's very hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to say I really help that kid. But I
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  Speaker 1: get an instinctive feeling that maybe I did help. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's hard for me to say out loud
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  Speaker 1: publicly that I really influenced that athlete's career. They're intendubals
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  Speaker 1: believe confidence issues like raising your bottom line, but I
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  Speaker 1: think I instinctively know I did offer some help. The
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  Speaker 1: goal is to make better athletes and better people, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the whole goal. We're there to make
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  Speaker 1: better athletes the one or two percent we talked about,
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  Speaker 1: and better people, people that are more able to write
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  Speaker 1: their own story in a better, more positive, productive.
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  Speaker 2: Way that you could win it.
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  Speaker 3: I think you give it your best shot. It's a
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  Speaker 3: bit like Rocky one, two and three. You go out there,
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  Speaker 3: you prepare and you give it your best shot. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we said today with a team meeting, we
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  Speaker 3: said we're going to give our best shot. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a good fine. I think it'll
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  Speaker 3: be I hope it'll be a fitting end to a
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  Speaker 3: great tournament.
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