6 Mental Toughness Tips - Best Stolen Ideas - Part 4

Published: Fri, 10/21/16

‘The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing but in rising again after falling’ - Vince Lombardi

One of the favorite questions I ask every coach I interview is:

'What is the best thing you have ever learned or stolen from another coach?'

Here are 6 Mental Toughness Best Practices:

“When coaching a kid in a game – if you want to pull them out to teach them something – don’t pull the kid out and put them at the end of the bench. Pull them out, teach them, then put them immediately back into the game. That way kids don’t see coming to the bench as a punishment, they see it as an opportunity to learn.” – John Doss
“When you take the time to teach your boys, there’s an implied confidence, that you believe they can achieve, and that’s praise in itself” – John Wooden
Ed Sheft – Mental toughness – You have to know you are better than your competitor
Charlie ‘The Spaniard’ Brenneman – “The way I overcome fear and nerves is to know that I have outworked and out-prepared my competition”
Chip Kelly – after tough loss, talked about moving forward not looking back: “We run a forward-looking operation”
“Practice is everything” – Pete Carroll

Teach our kids to be tough by believing in them! Next week we'll look at some great in-game strategies.

To check out the other posts in this series go to: winningyouthcoaching.com/blog/

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What started out as a dream soon turned into reality. Charlie fought at every level of the industry, including an 11-fight UFC career. After upsetting #6 ranked Rick Story in 2011, his life changed as he skyrocketed into the world rankings and went head-to-head with the best fighters in the world, such as UFC Champion Johny Hendricks and current top-ranked light heavyweight Anthony “Rumble” Johnson.

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Craig Haworth is the founder of Winning Youth Coaching, a site dedicated to helping coaches and parents make youth sports an awesome experience for the youth and the parents. He interviews coaches from around the world and posts them on his podcast, which currently has over 95 interviews and has been downloaded over 95,000 times. He writes a weekly note to coaches and parents. He is married to his high-school sweetheart and they share the blessing of 3 children and live in Franklin, TN. You can sign-up for his weekly note here, find him on twitter at @craighaworth1, or visit his website winningyouthcoaching.com.

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