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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 765923, member: 26306"] Yep, a good saying my HS coach used to use a lot was "if you go up to the plate intimidated of the pitcher thinking about how good he is and think "I hope he walks me or maybe I can get a hit", that if you do get a hit it was an accident. If however you go up there knowing you're going to get a hit, praying that the pitcher will give you something that you can hit, and be one step ahead of the pitcher, you've got a much better shot at getting a hit. Of course the thing is that you've got to maintain that confidence despite the fact that even the best players fail 2 out of 3 times. You've got to maintain confidence knowing that you're going to get a hit despite the fact that the reality is most likely you won't. And then of course there are the "downswings", when every single hard-hit ball seems to be right at someone, or the first baseman is holding the guy on at 1st with the bases loaded and luckily happens to be there when you smoke one down the baseline that in all rights should have been a hit if he had playing smarter (ie he chased a gut shot and hit :)). The major difference is that if you hit a hard shot that just happens to be caught, everyone will congratulate you and tell you to keep doing what you're doing and sooner or later they'll start to fall. I don't know of anyone (apart from people on CC) that would tell someone "just keep doing what you're doing" after losing a $100 pot getting their money in ahead. But that's one major aspect of all walks of life. You're going to fail, and it's how you react to it that determines how well you do, in baseball, poker, and life. Are you going to dwell on the failure and hope that you don't get another opportunity to fail? Or are you going to say "I messed that one up, I hope I get another opportunity". [/QUOTE]

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