The Psychology of Winning: How to Develop a Winning Attitude in High Performance Sport – By Wayne Goldsmith.

World Cup Final Day.  The team gathers in the locker room.  This is an intense, high pressure environment that few experience and even fewer survive. A former player – one of the nation’s greatest – walks into the change room. There is a respectful hush as he starts to speak. Continue reading →

The Daytona 500 is a 500 miles (804.7 km)-long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is one of four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule.

The Daytona 500 is regarded as the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar, carrying by far the largest purse.^[1] Championship points awarded are equal to that of any other Sprint Cup race. It is also the series’ first race of the year; this phenomenon is virtually unique in sports, which tend to have championships or other major events at the end of the season rather than the start. Since 1995, Continue reading →