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Go Inside the Mind of Major League Baseball Players

"Those who seem to function the best under pressure are those who look like they’re the most detached. When something goes wrong, you can’t tell by looking at them because they’ve already moved onto the next play."

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How Mental Skills Training with Champion’s Mind Prepared Me to Go Pro

"Mental training is THE game changer in sports performance and life." - Samuel Upshaw J, pro rugby player

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5 Things to Look for in a Mental Skills Program for Your Team

You wouldn’t leave your team’s physical game to chance or circumstance, but unfortunately that’s often what happens to the mental game. You probably do what you can here and there, but do you have a cohesive plan that you’re able to follow day in and day out?

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How Positive Self-Talk Powered this Tennis Player to a College Title

"I’ll say something to remind myself that I’m here for a reason and am capable of beating this person." - NCAA champion Brienne Minor

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How an NCAA Tennis Champion Stays Confident and Committed

"It’s in those times when you’re tired that you have to really push yourself, and if you have people to do it with you, you’re all in it together." - Brienne Minor, NCAA tennis champion

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The Mental Skills that Make Students Classroom Champions

What I hope kids get from our athlete-mentors is that they need to keep grinding. Even looking back at my own career, the pattern was injury, injury, success, failure, failure, success. I would never have achieved anything if I hadn’t persevered." Olympian Steve Mesler

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Mental Toughness Exercises for Athletes

One way to practice being mentally tough is to reframe things that you might normally think of negatively in a positive way. Take a situation you’d usually just try to get through and turn it into something to grow through.

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The Mindset of a Star Transfer Student-Athlete

"The more prepared you can be mentally, the greater the edge you'll have on your opponent." - Jordan Dail, Oregon Ducks pitcher

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How a Star Pitcher Plays in the Zone

Softball is one of the most highly competitive intercollegiate sports out there. While in basketball, football, and others, it’s the same few teams vying for dominance each season, in softball there’s

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The Competitive Advantage of Daily Mental Skills Training

Developing a daily mental skills practice requires a tiny time commitment from athletes – just five minutes – yet yields enormous performance dividends.

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Student-Athletes: The COVID-19 Shutdown is Your Chance to Develop a Champion's Mind

It’s easy to think of your sport’s season getting closed down by the coronavirus as a chance to take your foot off the gas. In fact, this unprecedented period isn’t down time, it’s crunch time for your daily mental skills training.

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College Coaches’ Mental Skills Training Questions Answered

As little as five minutes' mental skills training per day can help your team develop a gold medal mindset.