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Growing A Long Term Winner’s Mindset | #AskASoccerPro Show Ep. 051

by Quincy Amarikwa

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In today’s episode: 

Time Stamp 

0:00 - 9:14 Intro

9:17 - 15:31 Right vs. Easy

15:34 - 16:44 The International Game

16:44 - 25:45 Long Term Winners Mindset

27:24 - 30:27 Sanya Richards-Ross

30:39 - 31:18 Being Relentless

31:20 - 34:53 Not Winning Gold in 2008

35:06 - 38:27 Making Mistakes

38:31 - 38:52 Don’t Forget to Have Fun

38:53 - 39:50 The Biggest Lesson I Learned

40:41 - 45:48 How to Come Back

45:53 - 49:31 How to Fight the Noise

49:36 - 53:46 MommiNation

53:49 - End Coaches Convention and More!

QUOTES: 

Quincy

  1. Chances are you know what the right thing to do is. The problem is it’s very hard to do the right thing because there’s usually no one holding you accountable. (10:00 -10:09)

  2.  If the way in which you’re going about winning is to the detriment of everybody around you, if the only way that you can build the tallest building is by knocking down everybody else’s, or the only way you can get to the top of the mountain is by stepping on the heads of everybody around you… you might get to the top, but you’re gonna be real lonely. (11:09 - 11:24)

  3.  Along your journey and along your path in life or soccer, you’re going to hit multiple moments in time where you’re going to be able to take a shortcut. You’ll be thinking you don’t have to do it [the work] or it doesn’t really matter this time. Well if it doesn’t really matter then just do it. In the MSL we don’t make excuses. (11:40 - 12:18)

  4.  Your job is to catch yourself when you’re bs’ing yourself. Because guess who gets really good at doing that? YOU. (12:19 - 12:28)

  5. Eventually you’re gonna get sick of the BS, the problem is, if you get really good at bs’ing yourself, you won’t get sick of the BS for a really long time. If it’s a while before you get sick of your own BS, you might run out of the only thing that is most valuable to you… your time. (12:36 - 12:51)

  6. Typically the forward is supposed to be the stereotypical most selfish person on the team, the person who has to have the glory, who has to score the goals; it’s all about them. (13:30 - 13:39)

  7. I know there are people who are better at finishing that I am so if my goal is to win, is it more important that I score the goal, or, is it more important that I create the best opportunity for the best goal scorer to score the goal? (13:57 - 14:05)

  8. The game of soccer means that there are eleven players on both sides of the field and no one person is greater than the team. (15:23 - 15:31)

  9. International (soccer) is the great equalizer in my opinion, and it’s because the teams who win are the ones who choose to do what’s right, not what’s easy; and most people don’t understand the difference between the two and how that translates over the long term. (16:24 - 16:44)

Sanya

  1. When you get to the elite level, everybody’s talented. .. I think you have to be willing to work harder than everybody else, you have to be okay with failures, be okay with the fact that things aren’t always gonna go your way… You have to be relentless. (30:55 - 31:18) 

  2. You definitely have to work hard and believe in yourself, but I think just not quitting, no matter what happens, no matter what comes your way  is probably the determining factor between those who really achieve the next level of greatness. (31:51 - 32:04)

  3. It took me a while to admit or to express that I won the bronze and not lost the gold. (32:26 - 32:30)

  4. The favorite is the person who goes in and really says and believes there’s nothing, there’s no other possible outcome other than me winning. (37:13 - 37:19)

  5. Every race I run every scenario and in my head is always me crossing the finish line first. (37:32 - 37:36)

  6. Even when you’re doing something at the very highest level, you can’t forget the joy of it. (38:37 - 38:44)

  7.  A lesson I learned was that after I lost, the sun still came up the next morning. I was still Sanya Richards-Ross, the world didn’t come to an end. (39:21 - 39:28)

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In the #AskASoccerPro Show 11 year MLS vet Quincy Amarikwa breaks down the MSL (Mental Strength League), an ongoing game that he believes he and everyone else is a conscious or unconscious participant. 

This is a philosophy and mindset he has developed, refined and implemented over the course of his life and now 11+ year professional soccer career...

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