Characteristics of Successful Athletes
On Cnnsi.com, I read an article about Al Staniewicz, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s assistant coach on The Ultimate Fight season 8. “Stankie” reminds me of the basketball coach in Van Wilder; a grandfatherly coach who is often hard to understand and who appears totally out of place with the young MMA fighters.
However, in the article, he says Nogueira is a great fighter because:
he possesses “the five ‘D’s and the two ‘A’s: desire, determination, dedication, drive, and discipline. And the a’s: ability and attitude.”
While most people fixate on size or other physical attributes, it is the psychological characterisitcs which are just as, if not more important than ability and “natural” talent, regardless of sport.
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