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“My success is the outcome of my work. I am willing to do the work.” Delice Coffey Did you know? Visualization was first applied to sports performance after the 1984 Olympics when Russian researchers studying Olympic athletes found that Olympians who had employed visualization techniques experienced a positive impact on their biological outcomes and performance. […]
A Coffey Note on Focus “My success is the outcome of my work; I am willing to do the work.” Delice Coffey Did you know? Researcher Abernety (2001) and Zaichkowsky & Nayor (2004) believed that the increase in an athletes’ awareness of his or her arousal level as it relates to attention is the foundation […]

“Every game’s a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way — that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one — you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you’re ready to play.” Russell Wilson There is a strong link between […]
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” Bear Bryant Some self-defeating thoughts can repeatedly play in your mind when you are stressed. During a competitive football game, when you feel overwhelmed and under-resourced with the problems you face, you tend to fall back […]
“Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.” Dean Smith According to sports psychology for basketball, emotion is a built-in alerting system. Feelings often occur strongest when you feel possible risks and threats. Perceptions of risk and threats can easily trigger emotions and stress hormones which might affect your performance. […]

“A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players “see” situations before they happen so they can be prepared.” Jack Ramsay One of the most straightforward concepts of sports psychology for basketball is developing positive self-talk. It’s also one of the hardest mental skills to master. But mastering self-talk has a wide range of benefits […]
