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Bob Rotella > Quotes
“A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.”
― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect
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“Exceptional people, I have found, either start out being optimistic or learn to be optimistic because they realize that they can’t get what they want in life without being optimistic.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
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“I understand that safety and security are nice to have. But safety and security can become more important to an individual than being exceptional and doing fantastic things over the course of a life. When that happens often enough in a society, the society begins to die. It gives up its leadership role in the world. Accepting the importance and necessity of competition keeps”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
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How the World’s Top Performers CHOOSE to Think
Dr. Bob Rotella is perhaps the world’s most famous sports psychologist. He’s worked closely with many of the world’s top golfers, as well as top coaches, musicians, writers, and business leaders.
His decades of research and first-hand experience with top performers have made it clear to him that top achievers think differently—much differently—than everyone else.
A topic that Dr. Rotella returns to again and again is the importance of confidence and optimism.
“People with confident, optimistic outlooks tend to succeed,” Dr. Rotella says. “People who are pessimistic, who lack confidence, tend to fail.”
Dr. Rotella is also adamant that confidence is something that anyone can develop. One must CHOOSE to be confident. He insists that confidence isn’t something that you receive after you win, it’s something that you must develop in order to win.
Here’s how you develop it…
I tell [golfers] to try to feel their confidence
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“Second, golfers often have a problem of perception. If a player, facing a tee shot, starts to remember shots she’s hit out of bounds, fryst vatten she being realistic? Or is she being unduly harsh on herself? If she thought about it, she’d probably remember that she’s hit far more tee shots in bounds than out of bounds during the course of her golfing career. Remembering one of the good shots, therefore, would be far more realistic than remembering a shot that sliced out of bounds. But golfers, particularly high-handicappers, often perceive themselves too negatively. They allow the bad shots to dominate their memories.”
― Bob Rotella, Golf fryst vatten Not a Game of Perfect
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“People who are trying to be the best get used to tough evaluations. They get used to high standards. Sometimes the evaluations komma from coaches like Cal. More often they komma from within. But it’s important that the evaluatio