Soccer pre game pep talk

Click To Tweet. I would visualize play after play in my head. Taking the right steps and anticipating defensive reaction started as a mental process for me.

I learned that in football. No idea where and if kids learn this outside of sports. Another new talk example: I was super nervous holding my first workshop in German! I also learned how to make it through the hard times. See, things were not always great. I would just get them the next defender back by pancaking them! At one point, I kept track of how many pancake blocks I had during games.

The researchers repeated their experiment with American college students and saw similar results; that praise effectively leads to a tangible impairment in skilled performance. As coaches learn more about the Ideal Performance State, you see greater variance in athlete preparation. They kept coming back. Four separate times, they cut the lead to three points.

I felt detached, like I was on the outside looking in on a basketball game. It was an out-of-body experience. It is very likely, that regardless of the speech making skill of Coach Krzyzewski, interventions or interference from his coach would have taken him out of his personal IPS and hurt his flow.

Athletes know themselves the best. They know what inspires them and what motivates them. They also know where they are on the preparation continuum. In these instances, athletes are already activated, or the team would not be in that big game. Delivering a speech that further activates, an activated athlete, in a big game, has the potential to push them into a situation they cannot control which would hinder performance.

There are many tools athletes can use to identify their personal activation level before competitions, Dr. Peter Jensen includes many in his book. Many athletes use music to help get them to their ideal activation level. In the Rio Olympics, many athletes were seen with earphones pre-competition using music to help them prepare. The music is very individualized and likely different based on the importance of the competition.

She also holds a PhD in sport psychology. Forrester used music before every major competition, but always listened to opera music before she jumped.

If one athlete needs opera to prepare, and another would like to listen to hip-hop, it is difficult for any coach to address both of those needs in one speech. The value of pre-game speeches are also highly dependant on what sport you are preparing for. Every New Zealand National team performs the Haka before international competitions. The Haka. YouTube has examples of New Zealand National team athletes from many different sports performing the Haka. For sports that require a great deal of activation like rugby or American football, the activation makes a lot of sense.

However, for sports that require patience and precision it seems out of place. So, feeling like gladiators only comes with the territory. No doubt! Rope is a sign of hope! You throw the rope! You hold this team tight! You hold that rope tight! Out of the popular sports, football may be the one that requires the most dependence on teammates. One of his career's defining moments was the speech he delivered to his WVU team before facing Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.

The underdog Mountaineers went on to rout the Sooners, and Stewart's pregame "leave no doubt" speech was immortalized. But not even facing a chance to secure his legacy and achieve football immortality was enough to make legendary coach Vince Lombardi blink.

In his pregame speech to his Packers, Lombardi acknowledges the indescribable hugeness of the moment, but underscores that acknowledgement with a very simple path to victory. A championship was guaranteed, Lombardi instructed, if they forgot the size of the stage, the ferocity of the opponent and just focused on the fundamentals.

Since being drafted by the Ravens in , future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis has transformed from a tremendously talented trouble maker to one of the NFL's most respected elder statesman and the league's leading producer of authentically motivational speeches. But Ray Lewis, as only Ray Lewis could do, gave a postgame speech powerful enough to comfort his teammates and change public perception of the loss. What was once a crushing blow to a veteran team whose Super Bowl dreams were dying, became a necessary stepping stone to gain the strength and experience required to achieve future success.

Disarming as his persona may be, any team that has run through his buzz saw in the Bayou in recent years knows the Tigers' coach means business. This glimpse into the LSU locker room during the season is positive proof that, despite his projected air of a good-natured clown with the media, Les Miles is as serious as a heart attack come game day. A little more than 25 years since its release, Hoosiers remains among the most beloved sports movies in history. The film was based on the true story of an improbable state championship won by a small-town Indiana high school in the mid '50s.

The old adage "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game" is a tired cliche embraced mostly by losers. Only coach Norman Dale could turn such an antiquated notion into a believably motivational rallying cry capable of carrying a team of underdogs to an inspiring second half victory. In my book, we're gonna be winners! These days Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow is just "really excited" to give his team a chance to win, no matter what his role looks like.

At least that's what the never-deviated-from talking points that he's been issued say. Tebow's generic company-man spiel is a far cry from the halftime speech he gave to his Gators teammates during the BCS Championship. The fiery speech would come to define his warrior image and will go down in history as one of the greatest halftime speeches of all time.

The pregame speech coach Herb Brooks gave to the U. Actually, it's one of the greatest motivational speeches ever—even outside the sports world. Brooks' inspiring speech preceded a U. Great moments are born from great opportunity.