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#110 - Daily MG - Legacy by James Kerr - 6 of 6

"Red Head - tight, inhibited, results-oriented, anxious, aggressive, overcompensating, desperate. Blue head - loose, expressive, in the moment, calm, clear, accurate, on task. Where we direct our mind is where our thoughts will take us; our thoughts create an emotion; the emotion defines our behavior; our behavior defines our performance. So, simply, if we can control our attention, and therefore our thoughts, we can manage our emotions and enhance our performance."

The New Zealand men's national rugby team, commonly known as the All Blacks, has won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Their 77 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby.

#109 - Daily MG - Legacy by James Kerr - 5 of 6

"Say you’ll be a Great All Black, and you might just become one. Anchoring is most easily understood by recalling the tricks employed by supermarkets, shysters and salespeople everywhere. ‘Normally $20!’ the huckster shouts. ‘For you, sir, I’ll give it to you for $5. Bargain!” The anchoring of perceptions - normally $20! Bargain!” - Makes the lower number seem cheaper."

The New Zealand men's national rugby team, commonly known as the All Blacks, has won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Their 77 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby.

#108 - Daily MG - Legacy by James Kerr - 4 of 6

"You don’t just want to be an All Black, you want to be a great All Black. “What would a G.A.B. do?”"

The New Zealand men's national rugby team, commonly known as the All Blacks, has won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Their 77 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby.

#107 - Daily MG - Legacy by James Kerr - 3 of 6

"Embrace expectations. It is this internal benchmark that sets apart the grat from the good. ‘I challenge myself to be the best basketball payer every moment I’m playing the game,’ Michael Jordan tells MVP.com.’

As recounted by Tony Cozier to the BBC’s Sam Sherington, Tino Best, the West Indies fast bowler, shows how it is done on his answerphone: “This is Tino Best speaking, the fastest bowler in the world. I can’t take your call right now, but I’ll get back to you as soon as I’ve finished practicing how to get faster.”"

The New Zealand men's national rugby team, commonly known as the All Blacks, has won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Their 77 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby.

#106 - Daily MG - Legacy by James Kerr - 2 of 6

"There’s an old Japanese proverb that says, “Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

The paradox is that though every organization thinks they have unique problems, many change issues are centered on one thing. The ability - or inability - to convert vision into action. Sometimes it is through a lack of a vision itself. More often through the inability to translate vision into simple, ordinary, everyday actions."

The New Zealand men's national rugby team, commonly known as the All Blacks, has won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Their 77 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby.

#105 - Daily MG - Legacy by James Kerr - 1 of 6

“Sweep the sheds. Never be too big to do the small things that need to be done.” Vince Lombardi said, “Only by knowing yourself can you become an effective leader.” and John Wooden said, “Winning takes talent, to repeat it takes character.”

The New Zealand men's national rugby team, commonly known as the All Blacks, has won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015. Their 77 per-cent winning record in test-match rugby.

#104 - Daily MG - The Mental Game of Baseball by Harvey Dorfman - 6 of 6

"Mickey Mantle told USA Today in May of 1987, “Look at guys like Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and Pete Rose. Those guys took care of their bodies and they played forever. I never thought it mattered, until now. It [ticks] me off when I see guys passing me on all=time home runs and I know I could have had a hell of a lot more. Kids should know they should take better care of themselves. I wish I had. Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and somebody else’s brain, who knows how good a player I would have been?”

Another story about how bad do you want it? Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden was not satisfied with his pitching mechanics, despite the very fine statistics he compiled in winning the Rookie of The Year Award in 1984. Off he went to the Instructional League -- and he won the Cy Young Award in 1985.

Another story about how bad do you want it? A biography of Roberto Clemente by Phil Musick (Who is Roberto) tells this story: On a rainy afternoon, during the 1971 season, in the middle of a downpour that threatened that night’s ball game, Clemente suddenly informed his friend that they were leaving for the ball park immediately. It was two o’clock. “The field will be wet tonight,” he told Bernier. “I want to try a couple of things.” Bernier described the “things.” “Clemente had someone roll the ball on the ground to make it wet and then threw it against the wall so that he could practice grabbing it barehanded. For a long time he did that and then ran back and forth, stopping and starting. That’s what the dedicated players do at every level of competition. The sooner the better."

Harvey was a mental skills consultant in the MLB from 1987 to 1997 and is known as one of the original mental skills coaches.

#103 - Daily MG - The Mental Game of Baseball by Harvey Dorfman - 5 of 6

"April 19, 1982, the NY Mets were rained out of their game against the Expos in Montreal. Seaver was to have pitched for the Mets. His start was changed to the 21st against the Chicago Cubs. Sports Illustrated recorded the “event” which followed the rain-out:

When the Mets returned to NY the night of the 19th, most of the players went directly home from LaGuardia Airport. Seaver, however, got a ride on the team bus to Shea Stadium, which was deserted and in darkness. He went directly to the locker room, put on his uniform, filled a bucket with baseballs and began the long walk across the diamond to the right-field bullpen. He moved with his graceless and plodding plowman’s walk, his weight falling on his heels and his head listing to the right as if, with each ensuing step, it might collapse upon his shoulder. When Seaver reached the bullpen he stepped onto the warmup mound and began throwing baseball after baseball against the screen behind home plate. His throwing was illuminated only by the lights from the parking lot. He warmed up quickly but carefully in the mild night air. He was accompanied only by the sounds of his own exertion, and of baseballs plunking against the screen and dropping softly to the ground. When asked why he put himself through such an inconvenience, he said, ‘It was my day to throw. I always throw on my day to throw.’ Because of such dedication to detail, it would seem the only thing that could keep Seaver from reaching the goals[s] he had determined for himself is an event beyond his control. Seaver defeated the Cubs on April 21, 2-0. It was his second start of the season; it was his second shutout."

Harvey was a mental skills consultant in the MLB from 1987 to 1997 and is known as one of the original mental skills coaches.

#102 - Daily MG - The Mental Game of Baseball by Harvey Dorfman - 4 of 6

"Early in his career, Pete Rose wanted to become the first singles hitter to earn $100,000. He did. As his career progressed, Rose began to form long-range statistical goals. Now, his record-setting accomplishments are well known. But Rose was another player who considered his physical ability to be no better than ordinary. What is extraordinary, he said, was his attitude.

“Total dedication. I worked hard because I just can’t go through the motions. The numbers motivated me, and I know what it takes to get those numbers. I dedicated myself. I worked my tail off. I took care of myself. I don’t smoke or drink. I made sure I was ready to play every day, because to accomplish my goals, I had to play. You can’t get 200 hits a year on the bench. Getting 4000 career hits excites me. There were a lot of days I didn’t feel like doing the work I had to do, or I would’ve liked to do something else,” Rose conceded. But he never yielded to the temptation to take it easy, if he ever really had one."

Harvey was a mental skills consultant in the MLB from 1987 to 1997 and is known as one of the original mental skills coaches.

#101 - Daily MG - The Mental Game of Baseball by Harvey Dorfman - 3 of 6

"The player who can understand the difference between where he is reasonably trying to go, as opposed to where others want him to end up, approaches his game from the right direction."

Harvey was a mental skills consultant in the MLB from 1987 to 1997 and is known as one of the original mental skills coaches.