Quote of the week:

Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

-Lou Brock

From Sports Quotes

Tampa Bay Bucs: In the Zone?

As athletes, we’re all familiar with the feeling of being in “the Zone” – totally unstoppable, everything’s going right and flowing perfectly. Time even slows for us – our target imagery freezes in our vision and the opponents are a half-step behind.
Is it possible for an entire team to collectively enter the zone? Bucs QB Bruce Gradkowski asserts that “It’s just little things in a drive that get you going. It might not even be me that starts the drive. I might hand off a couple times, we get a couple nice runs, then the next ball I throw I’m feeling it. We get that completion and we feel the momentum as a group. In that second quarter against the Saints, we started moving very well and we just felt like we were in the zone, as a group. I know I did.”
Keep checking with SPINw as ongoing research on the Zone emerges from sport psychologists in the field.

Read the whole article from the Bucs game programs here.

Click here to read more about the leading researcher of flow and the Zone.

Quote of the Week

"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher."


"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."


- Ted Williams


From Baseball Almanac

Rutgers football: The Psychology of an Underdog

Who missed Rutgers’ 28-25 upset special win over Louisville last week? If you did, apologies from all of us at SPINw. Anyone who thought that Rutgers' rise this season was accomplished without the help of mental game training should check out this article from the Rutgers Daily Record. Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano had used motivational clips from the movie Cinderella Man to inspire his team during practice throughout the week. He refreshed his team with the messages of perseverance and hard play from the movie during halftime with the Scarlet Knights trailing by 11; Rutgers responded with 14 unanswered points for the victory. Will Schiano’s motivational techniques power the Scarlet Knights to a major bowl game? Keep an eye on Rutgers December 2 face-off with West Virginia to find out.

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Sport Psychology - What are the benefits?

We all know that practicing the mental game can be just as important as regular on-court or –field practice. However, have you ever wondered about some of the theory behind sport psychology? Why does sport psychology help? What can it really do for you? What are the benefits of it? Read on here for more in-depth information on the values of sport psychology and mental game training.

Quote of the Week

"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

- Michael Jordan"

From BrainyQuote.com

Cricket Psychology

Sport psychology is helping not only western athletes – the benefits of sport psychology on athletes are being seen worldwide, as demonstrated in an article from India’s news network NDTV. Rudi Webster, a sport psychologist who has worked with Greg Norman, is now coaching India’s cricket team on positive thinking, concentration, and visualization. Perhaps most important of his ideas is the philosophy that “a slump is the result of a wandering mind and not technical flaws and to get over it, you just need to start thinking positively.”

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