athletes

“And I think that's very Very tough, especially for athletes that are super type A, and they're like, oh, I can't take a rest day. I can't take a day off. And I'm like, well, just do the same routine, but just shove in something else, like go to a coffee shop f…”

“The way to unpack it, the best way to unpack it is with counsel. Whether that's for athletes in sports psychology and therapy and couples therapy, I think that in sports, it's a great place to analyze how we improve. No one bats an eye at having a shooting coa…”

“A lot of great athletes take it personally. And those are things that you also have to shed when you get out of sport and into life and business is take things less personally.”

“I do think that mentally elevating doubt and fear is probably the better way to describe how these top athletes think. They're fear motivated fear of not being the best, fear of losing And fear of not performing well. It's a huge motivator. And so I think that…”

“What I have found is when I go back to an athlete at the end of a game or a season and say, oh, So what were you thinking? What was going on there? They have no clue. They didn't even know what they were looking for, to be quite honest. But if you give, if you…”

“One of the things I discovered in super over indexing early on on identity is like, oh crap, I'm trapping people in some ways because these identities are like causing them in some ways to stay too long in their sport. Because I'm a hockey player. That's my en…”

“People who developed these moral and ethical skills from their coaches and parents, along with the skills of the sport, they were the true winners, and they were much more likely to sustain the success because everyone wanted them to succeed.”

“A very significant percentage of these people who make millions of dollars are bankrupt by the time they're 30.”

“No, I think it's, I think it transcends everything. It's unbelievable how competitive guys are literally over nothing. I mean, it could be for a t-shirt. you know, there's guys making millions of dollars, and it's for a t-shirt, or you know not having to run …”

“If you have two athletes that are, or performers that are the same talent, I'll take the fully present person over the fully confident one every single time. Because when you're confident, you can get careless. And just look at how many times that someone that…”