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On Championship Behaviors with Hugh McCutcheon

The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

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The Importance of Mental Skills in Sports

When I was an athlete, there was this huge amount of mystery around sports psychology and performance psychology. But the reality is we all have to accept that our bodies don't do anything without our minds telling what to do. The idea that these things that connected and not siloed was really important for me. We should be talking from day one about the fact that at some point in our season, it's going to get really big and scary and all this kind of stuff. And we need to prepare that from the beginning. So when I think about the mental game, there's probably two athletes that come to mind. One was Sarah Wilhite, who was a remarkable volleyball player but

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