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“Bad Luck” And Sport [LXXVI]
Or… More discipline, less hope, let’s put it back onto the kids for their performance
Sharp Intake Of Breath
A very common phrase I hear at children’s sporting fixtures when something does not go as planned — a ball is dropped, the other team scores a goal, or whatever. The coach will say:
“Bad Luck.”
As though it has nothing to do with the players or their skill level, it all comes down to some ephemeral, mysterious, and utterly undefinable thing called ‘luck’.
I say
“It has nothing to do with luck, it is a lack of skill and discipline.”
Those two things are intertwined — skill and discipline. Discipline gets the kids to train and work on their teamwork and skills. The more discipline, the better the skills are built.
As ‘they’ say:
“It is amazing how the harder I work at something, the luckier I seem to get.”
Work them harder, run them through drills over and over again.
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