“The Backstage of Motivation” | Paul McCarthy | TEDxUniversityofGlasgow via @YouTube.

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A reassuring personal reflection from fly-half, Fin Smith, who felt he began yesterday’s game "like a rabbit in the headlights" on his first Test start before composing himself to produce a man-of-the-match performance in England's win over France.

RT @sam_golf: Not all of my songs get a post-victory rewrite, but this one felt absolutely warranted. A great win, and a fantastic story. C….

Golf develops the good qualities of a man’s nature and softens the poor ones…It cultivates patience and endurance under adversity and yet keeps alive the fires of hope. (Walter J. Travis).

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. Paradise Lost, Book V (1667) John Milton, English poet (1608–1674) #newblogpost #sportpsychologist.

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What man is strong enough to reject the possibility of hope? The Locked Room (1986) Paul Auster, American writer (1947–) #newblogpost.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968) #newblogpost.

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The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. [Speech in London, 1908] Baron Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the IOC (1863–1937) #newblogpost.

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. Jesse Owens, American Olympic gold medallist for track and field (1913–1980) #sportpsychology.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot, English writer (1819–1880).

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologise. Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist whose triumphs included winning a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics (1942–2016).

Success is a choice not a chance. Joe Simpson, English mountaineer whose near-fatal climb in the Andes became the subject of a book and film, Touching the Void (1960–).

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. Wilma Rudolph, American runner who, after contracting polio went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics .

You know what luck is? Luck is believing you’re lucky. Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947 (Cooper, 2022).