Build a Better PlayerAttitude, Criticism, and EffortPart 3: EffortGood players know after a game, even a game in which they played well according to the papers, that they could have done more, could have hustled better, could have made a few more things happen IF ONLY THEY HADN'T RESTED AT THE WRONG TIME, if only they had put out just a little more. It is not simply a matter of conditioning. Of course good players are going to be in good condition. A good coach gets even mediocre players in condition. It is simply that you can always do more. Your only chance to approach your potential is to strive constantly to do more -- always with a nagging sense of inadequacy, of having loafed and failed. Satisfied players are rarely good ones. |