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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because read more
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue read more
Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.
Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.
No wind favors him who has no destined port.
No wind favors him who has no destined port.
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's read more
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions
is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
(on not perfectionism
to put things off)
.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
(on not perfectionism
to put things off)
.
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come
forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are read more
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come
forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the
reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and
disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage
or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other
embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing,
not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the
quality of their relationships with others.
