Ninety Percent of the Battle Is in the Mind — Transcript

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1. 0:00How many guys here into sports?
2. 0:02Okay, if you're into sports, then you
3. 0:05know that
4. 0:07sports is 90%
5. 0:10battle of the mind.
6. 0:13It's about you're you're winning the
7. 0:14game.
8. 0:16You got three goals, they got zero, but
9. 0:18they got a look on their face.
10. 0:235-3.
11. 0:26Why? Because you started losing your
12. 0:29aggression. Your hearts became filled
13. 0:31with fear, intimidation,
14. 0:33right?
15. 0:35I watch cricket because I love being
16. 0:37depressed.
17. 0:40Right?
18. 0:43And there's a look on someone's face
19. 0:48when they're a Pakistani bowler
20. 0:50and they get a six smacked in their
21. 0:52face.
22. 0:53The look is called
23. 0:56But I I feel for the Pakistanis. I I
24. 0:58really do because
25. 0:59every other team can play a sport.
26. 1:01Pakistanis aren't this the guy who's
27. 1:02about to bowl his ball,
28. 1:04he's not bowling his ball.
29. 1:06An entire nation is deciding his fate
30. 1:10in the next few seconds.
31. 1:12How his family will see him,
32. 1:15whether or not his house is going to be
33. 1:17surrounded,
34. 1:18whether or not he needs to go and find a
35. 1:21apply for refugee status somewhere else,
36. 1:23the way his kids are going to perceive
37. 1:25him, what his kids are going to have to
38. 1:26hear at school, what his parents are
39. 1:28going to have to hear, what his spouse
40. 1:30is going to have to hear, the comments
41. 1:32from the entire world, the effect on
42. 1:34him, the effect on his family, the
43. 1:36anxiety of it all, and he's just holding
44. 1:38a ball and there's a guy in front of
45. 1:39him.
46. 1:40And you expect him to perform.
47. 1:45And then imagine 20 million people like
48. 1:50Right?
49. 1:51Like why do they get so nervous? Because
50. 1:53of you, idiots.
51. 1:55Cuz you you do this.
52. 1:57I knew you are losers.
53. 2:00I knew it.
54. 2:02Right?
55. 2:03That's why teams in the world that have
56. 2:06like really successful athletes and and
57. 2:08performance teams,
58. 2:09they invest heavily in sports
59. 2:11psychologists.
60. 2:13And they invest in coaches that make
61. 2:16sure that when you are losing, not when
62. 2:18you're winning, when you're losing the
63. 2:19game, you have the toughest mentality.
64. 2:24You see yourself winning even when
65. 2:25you're losing.
66. 2:27And there are there are teams that don't
67. 2:29have that. I'm telling you, they are
68. 2:30winning
69. 2:31and in their hearts, there's already
70. 2:33fear. Yeah, we're winning now, but what
71. 2:35if
72. 2:36what if they come back?
73. 2:39What if they they're they're they that
74. 2:42is actually where winning and losing
75. 2:44happens first.
76. 2:47This is the same thing on the
77. 2:47battlefield.