Talk with 10 sport psychologists and you will get 10 different lists of emotional characteristics of exceptional athletes.
Quarterbacks must take charge of situations.
Their behavior influenced an entire generation of young players who grew up thinking they had to behave in similar way to be great. Others can transfer their passion for sports to other areas of life. I really do not see putting in hours that some amount of these young kids spend in their sports. Exceptional athletes have to feel good about themselves, or at least feel good enough to think they can perform well. Fact, there’re many exceptions to emotionally stable characteristic.
Some children become so captivated by sports or a particular sport that they become nuisances to those around them.
a person who has a limited lerance for stress associated with training and competing isn’t as gonna be successful.
One who has a lerance for stress in lifetime and in sports has a better chance of making it. Drive can be present at a very early age, or it can develop as late as college years. Of course, he started putting in time and effort that made him successful, whenever he became part of a team and practiced against good competition any day. As a result, athletes who are on negative or pessimistic side rarely achieve a high extent of success, says Loehr. They can adapt to obstacles, and they don’t surely is always pushed to limits of ability to adapt. Passion Closely about drive factor is a love for togame. Eventually, they have an intangible ability to compete that sets them apart from other players, even if they don’t have great physical talent. Stability Talented athletes tend to be emotionally stable. You can’t keep them away from togame. It despite drive is evident in some children at preschool ages. Regarding cockiness among golfers, one teaching professional, who preferred to remain anonymous, said, You have to think you can take somebody else’s money.
Former NYC Knick Bill Bradley and Congressman Watts, who played quarterback at Oklahoma, moved easily from sports to politics.
Greg Patten, national junior coach for United States Tennis Association, says, The first thing I look for in an exceptional player is a childlike anticipation of play.
Great players abandon themselves to playing tosport. Their interest is so onedimensional that they can never take that passion to anything outside of togame. So that’s an excerpt from Sports Talent. They never get enough ice time by just intending to practices and games. Generally, former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, for instance, did not demonstrate that quality, as his postcareer record shows. With a slew of energy reserves, they always is being composed and rested. ESPN’s Robin Roberts played basketball at a relatively obscure college, thence became a broadcasting superstar. He thinks it can, odds are not good for that to happen. John Heil, a Roanoke, Virginia, sport psychologist, warns that great athletes who have this passion for sport run risk of having it define who they are. While creating situations, and imagining themselves playing togame, they spend hundreds of hours handling topuck. On p of ‘self esteem’ and ability to control confidence, loehr thinks it encompasses both drive and stability. To these athletes are almost obsessed with succeeding, says Loehr.
Even with the ups and downs that any athlete encounters, great ones manage to survive and come out of adversity with renewed enthusiasm for togame.
John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors appeared to live on an emotional edge from which they have been always about to fall.
They always look for to play. Roger Staubach went from toNFL’s hall of fame to being amidst to most successful businessmen in tocountry. It’s psychological version of flexibility. Although, positive Attitude Along with confidence, exceptional athletes often have a positive attitude. They used this semicontrolled rage to reach heights that other players could not approach. All great hockey players have spent time practicing by themselves, says Bob O’Connor, national ‘coach in chief’ for USA Hockey. Quarterbacks have a sort of swagger that can be irritating or offensive off tofield. Sport has a way of washing away those who can’t deal with stress. In practice and in competition, Undoubtedly it’s a necessary requirement of job that tells teammates and opponents, I know what I’m doing, I’m preparing to do it, and you can’t stop me. Outstanding ones know deep down inside that they are good, even if most athletes are partially motivated by fear of failure. Remember, these children will shoot baskets in todark, wear out garage door with a tennis ball, or play with a soccer ball instead of eating or doing their homework. George Brett, Kansas City third baseman, said he played well since he was afraid of failing or looking bad.
He is probably not driven, that doesn’t mean that drive won’t develop at an older age, if your child only plays a sport during structured practices or games.
Shane Murphy, PhD, a private practice sport psychologist who spent eight years on Olympic Training Center staff in Colorado, comments on devotion he has observed in talented athletes.
Almost all of them will agree with sport psychologist Jim Loehr, EdD, president of LGE Performance Systems, who says that drive is most important predictor of exceptional athletic success. Gifted golfer who is down seven strokes with seven holes to play still thinks he can pull everything gether in time for a win. They nag their parents to throw to them, hit with them, kick balls to them, or take them where other people will do these things. John Daly, togolfer, always is in trouble and yet plays at a very high level. Now look, the fuel for their success is positive. It means different things to different people, mental Toughness Mental ughness has become part of sport vocabulary. Furthermore, they’ll play by themselves, make up games, or create ‘makebelieve’ situations in which they make last big play that wins togame, Therefore in case they can’t find anyone. Heil calls this quality emotional resiliency. Furthermore, loehr reminds us that sport is demanding. However, actually, unless someone helps them know the important of balance in their lives, pursuit of excellence can become a negative experience. Known dave Randall was a Southeastern Conference tennis champion at University of Mississippi and later played on professional circuit for nine years.