Timothy Gallwey quotes
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“Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”
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“The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.”
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“The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.”
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“Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.”
-- Timothy GallweySource : W Timothy Gallwey (2014). “The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance”, p.91, Pan Macmillan
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“Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.”
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“Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.”
-- Timothy GallweySource : W Timothy Gallwey (2014). “The Inner Game of Golf”, p.19, Pan Macmillan
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“Concentration is not staring hard at something. It is not trying to concentrate.”
-- Timothy Gallwey
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.”
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“Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.”
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