Being Ready When Your Opportunity Comes | #AskASoccerPro Show Ep. 052

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In today’s episode: Breaking down the mentality of a future pro

Time Stamp 

0:00 - 5:03 - Intro: Hello from CES!

5:09 - 15:11 - Being Ready When your Opportunity Comes

15:25 - 18:33 -  The Top Three Skills To Go Pro

18:37 - 19:51 - Working On Skills Alone

19:53 - 21:15 - Expect the Unexpected

21:42 -  24:41 - Following Up With Coaches

25:31   - 27:36 - Kristen Amarikwa Joins the Live!

27:49 - 29:20 - College to Pro

29:27 -  34:31 - High School to College

34:37 - 37:12  - The Overwhelming Process

37:16 - 40:21  - Setting Yourself Apart From the Competition

40:47 - 47:07 -  Preparing for Opportunity

47:08 - 48:34 - When Everything Goes Wrong

48:55 - 50:54  - Leadership Style

51:03 - 56:16 - The Quincy Effect

57:21 - 59:56 - Outro

QUOTES: 

Quincy

1.  I think my sister has approached the game much differently than me and I think she has greatly benefited from doing so. Her older brother probably made plenty of mistakes, so, I think she’s been able to learn from my mistakes and accelerate her process, which has been great. (4:44 -4:57)

2. The hard work pays off in the long run if you do the work, don’t make excuses, take advantage of your opportunities when they come, and are willing and open to seeing an opportunity even if it’s an opportunity that others aren’t able to see. (6:11- 6:29)

3. If I make excuses… many, many opportunities are going to present themselves, right in front of my face and I’m going to be unable to recognize them, and unfortunately unable to capitalize on them. (10:17 - 10:46)

4. Being ready when your opportunity comes is more important, if almost a higher priority than having an opportunity. Because what good does having an opportunity do you if you’re not able to capitalize on it? (10:51 - 11:05)

5. Confidence is a skill. A skill that you can build over time… so look at it like a skill that takes practice. You’re not going to get it perfect right out of the blocks. (11:41 -11:52)

Kristen

6.  Going from High School to College and College to Pro] It’s a similar process, but they’re different. Different things are more important, there are different priorities in this [College to Pro] process than just the college. (33:10 -33:20)

7. When making big decisions, try to look at things from different perspectives and try to see it as a whole, and not just as one part of it. (33:55 - 34:03)

8. On what to do when you’re overwhelmed] Patience is obviously key in this sense. But what I do specifically is I just focus on what I can do, what I can control… I work on my touch, fix things I can control and do better and kind of let the rest fall into place because there’s only so many things that I can do and at some point I have to let the rest kind of take care of itself. (36:29 -36:57)
   

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