Laughing_Gnome_Invisible
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Maybe I should explain why I think this way. When I was a kid I was, for a while, the great white hope of my swimming coach. He was a finalist in the Tokyo Olympics, and had misguided visions that I too could be an Olympian. His name was Dave Haller, and he later became the coach of the British Olympic team. I became a dropout because I did not have the individualist mentality that was necessary to succeed. I wanted friends that might be my equal. To be a true competitor I should have wanted friends that I could squash like a bug. .....That is how a one on one sport works if you are a winner.
Forget all the bullcrap you hear from the contestants about all their friends in the biz. They want to crush them and humiliate them. This is what makes a winner.
If you are a team member, then you want to crush your opponents and raise your own team. However, you still want to be the MVP of that team because that is how good sportmen are. Arrogant bastards. The best sportsmen though, know how and when to turn off the arrogance and spend time in the real world.
Forget all the bullcrap you hear from the contestants about all their friends in the biz. They want to crush them and humiliate them. This is what makes a winner.
If you are a team member, then you want to crush your opponents and raise your own team. However, you still want to be the MVP of that team because that is how good sportmen are. Arrogant bastards. The best sportsmen though, know how and when to turn off the arrogance and spend time in the real world.