Motivating The Underdog

It’s challenging to prepare for a game in which you are not the favorite. On one hand, it can provide a huge motivational boost for your team, while on the other hand, it can lead to a feeling of insecurity and a lack of confidence. Many teams are beaten before they step on the playing field because of preconceived notions or because of what happened in a previous game. Here are some words of advice from our book A Season In Words to help prepare your team when they are the underdog.

• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
• Skating on thin ice is better than skating on no ice at all.
• A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
• Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
• Success is doing what it takes in spite of one’s fears.
• Of positive and negative thoughts—it doesn’t cost one cent more to think positively.
• Overcome resistance with persistence.
• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
• Champions know it’s not having the talent to win that makes a champion; it’s having too much pride to lose.
• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time.
• I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail, than attempt to do nothing and succeed.
• Mental toughness is the ability to avoid all negative foresight because foresight be it winning or losing too often becomes a reality.
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
• Free your mind of can’t.
• We often give the enemy the means for our own destruction.
• You can never succeed until you believe you will succeed.
• The strongest factor in prosperity is self-esteem; believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.

A Season In Words by Dan Spainhour

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