“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
– Paul “Bear” Bryant
The Power of Practicing
You need to put in the hard work it takes to improve, whether its doing individual workouts, team workouts or hitting the books to improve your knowledge of the game. All aspects need to be considered to get better. Take a football player for example; he can practice throwing a ball through a tire over and over to the point where he could be 10 or 50 yards away and hit his target every time. But if he does not do team workouts or know the playbook, he will struggle hitting a moving receiver and he will not even get in a game if he doesn’t know the plays. You need to work on all aspects of your sport to achieve greatness.
An hour of hard work and intense practice will take you much farther than 3 hours of lackadaisical “practice.” When Nolan McMonagle developed the MVP Offseason Workouts for Youth Basketball, he created it with that in mind.