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>Confident: You’ve worked hard, now represent your training. Allow your ability (based on all the hard work & training you’ve put in).

Confidence comes from having the Courage to submit yourself to an extremely demanding challenge, a challenge which most ordinary students will avoid. Confidence is the fruit of experience. The more you put yourself in challenging situations and endure through them, the more confidence you will develop. ( A very tough tournament, a very tough training situation – camp, off season participation in open mats, wrestling with a very tough wrestler, Competing in styles that stretch you – such as freestyle or Greco roman – will all build your confidence).

Toughness is learned - make no mistake about it! If you are not tough…it just means you need more practice. Just like learning or perfecting a technique or skill, toughness can be learned, refined and honed.

The confident person doesn’t hope to succeed, they EXPECT to succeed.

The confident person consistently displays ‘Raw Guts’ and courage when they compete: the ability to withstand pain and the heart to ignore it. To fight back with ever ounce of remaining strength in the face of adversity, unbelievable odds and overwhelming circumstances.

No matter how old or young, weak or strong…you can be tougher! Never believe that you can’t achieve because you are not talented enough, smart enough or weren’t given gifts to succeed. Your future is much more dependent on the decisions you make and what you do than on what you are genetically made up of. Believe me, the level of toughness you acquire through mental toughness training will be the most powerful FORCE in your athletic career as well as your life!