4 Motivational Quotes from a Overseas Basketball Player
How to Be a Lifelong Athlete, Train Hard, and Happy
4 Motivational Quotes from an Overseas Basketball Player
I. In sports training and athletic performance, the cost of your positive habits are in the present. The costs of your negative training habits are in your future performance.
II. Kids, athletes, or parents that get frustrated about playing time, or accolades, or the coach they can’t control aren’t learning an important life lesson that sports can teach us: that if you optimize for one single goal or destination, you only win once when you attain that goal or destination. If you live for playing, training, and staying positive through the journey, whether it playing time, accolades, adversity, or loss, you’ll figure out how to keep winning for eternity (aka, love what you do, not what you get.)
III. Often the first 30–100 days of starting a new process or habit (becoming an elite shooter and shooting 500 shots a day for example) are the hardest. Change brings the most anxiety, difficulty, and internal questioning. Getting a new coach, moving overseas to a new team or country, or being a freshman in college will often always be the hardest in the few months. Don’t quit until you know you don’t love the process.
IV. SportsItalian billionaire Brunello Cucinelli on what money can’t buy:
“There are three things you cannot buy.
Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not.
Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you.
Soul: No one can possibly treat your soul but yourself.”
Good luck out there. Embrace the change, the adversity, and become your best self, let’s rock and roll…