Charles Barkley on load management:
“Wait a minute, you gonna make $70M and you can’t play basketball 3 or 4 days a week?’… They fly private. They got the best medical stuff ever created… People working in the steel mill every day, I’m pretty sure they tired too, but they go to work every day.”
(via @FirstTake)
Nice guys lose if they don't learn how to flip the switch when they take the mound.
Coaches want the nice guy in the locker room.
But they want a competitive motherf'er on the mound.
Finding your alter ego i.e. "game face" is a powerful tool many young pitchers overlook.
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look at the way the bottom stays back in his leg more and look at the way his hips are moving and the way his arm stays back more allowing for more internal rotation of the arm
I don’t think many people understand how competing actually works.
People just think “oh just play hard”
No motherfucker.
Competing is about being ruthless, making it personal, willingness to goto another level to destroy the opponent because fuck everyone but your squad.