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“Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.” ~ Matthew Syed

“Learn from the past. Prepare for the future. Perform in the present.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“Worrying about a mistake will usually get you another one just like it.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“When you are playing your game right on time, in the present, you perform at your best. Why? Because in the present, there is no pressure. Pressure is created by anxieties about the future and remembered failures from the past.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.” ~ David Beckham

“Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.” ~ Earl Woods

“We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Training in weapons gives a perfect judgment, it expels melancholy, choleric and evil conceits, it keeps a man in breath, perfect health, and long life… it makes him bold, hardy and valiant.” ~ George Silver

“…The differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long persistence of deliberate effort to improve performance.” ~ Ericsson

“Nobody – but nobody – has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn’t so much a lack of talent; it’s a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.” ~ Jack Nicklaus

A Precious Human Life

Every day, think as you wake up,

Today I am fortunate to have woken up

I am alive, I have a precious human life,

I am not going to waste it,

I am going to use

All my energies to develop myself,

To expand my heart out to others,

To achieve enlighenment for

The benefit of all beings,

I am going to have kind

Thoughts twords others,

I am not going to get angry,

Or think badly about others,

I am going to benefit Others

As much as I can.

~ H.H. The XIV Dalai Lama

“I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.” ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw (via Rufus Muturi 9/6/11)

“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” ~ Muhammad Ali