We believe what we tell ourselves. We as humans don't fully understand or respect the power of our minds and have the tendency to negate its importance when we're looking at our sports performance. Legendary coach Sue Enquist addresses an issue everyone, even the best of the best,  struggles with — negative self talk.

The best of the best have a negative voice. Everybody has a negative voice!...Don't think you're a big, fat loser just because you have negative thoughts. But you're a big, fat loser if you let the negative voice win the conversation

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