INSIDE THE MIND OF A WINNER | Sports Psychologist Bill Beswick * train to dominate *

so that you get athletes who just turn up they'll turn up they'll do the requisite amount of work but that's it athletes will turn up to compete they put a bit more effort in they try they try to be the best amongst their group then there's the athletes who train to win they train every day every session so that they win on Match night and then there are just those very few players who train to dominate they train so hard that winning is inevitable on Race night and the English coach is Bill beic from Manchester

this side of yours is unbeaten thus far you think that they can maintain it tonight well it won't be for on to trying uh it's a good record to have and uh it's a tough one to maintain New Zealand in New Zealand but it's going to be a great game there in fact all of these top four teams have been remarkably close were you confident at any stage that you could win it I think you you give it your best shot it's a bit like Rocky 1 2 and three you go out there you prepare

and you give it your best shot and that's what we said today we had a team meeting we said we're going to give our best shot and my three questions are what do you want how badly do you want it and how much you will need to suffer and very often everything revolves around the first question what do you want because a lot of people are unclear what they want from Life they don't sit down and think through we we are writing our own life story every day and yet we don't think about it what

what who do we want to be where do we want to live what life do we want to Le when we finished our life come to the end of our life and look back what do we want to say that we've done so what do you want is a very powerful question and then if if an athlete says I want to be the best Bill fine how badly do you want it because it's going to you've got to pay a price to be the best the best pay a big price you've got to work harder

you've got to commit more you got to take more responsibility you got to deal with more ups and downs and if there if we can deal with that question how much you want to suffer because I work with gold medal Champions and they suffer every day they work enormously hard they sacrifice enormous things in order to get that [Music] [Music] success I wake up every morning and don't let the old man in and that's life we wake up every morning and make a decision who we're going to be I've got Parkinson these so getting up

in the morning is not so easy for me getting dressed is not so easy I have to make a decision am I going to be a fighter today or am I going to be a victim there's a great phrase genetics deals the cards environment plays the hand so genetics and you your background do influence your disposition to success in various activities another great thing I wrote once was there's a thousand excuses but not a single reason I did that with Bristol bears be last this season they loved it uh when you step into the challenge

Zone the number of excuses for getting out back into your comfort zone from there multiplies I'm too tired it's too difficult I'm having a bad day nobody likes me uh and so I would teach them to face up to those excuses and refuse to be a victim and teach them a fighter mentality about all those things may be there but I'm still going to do it I'm going to deal with it so a thousand excuses but not one reason to achieve and even if you don't achieve at the highest level you may not have the

same genetic disposition as somebody else but there's an awful lot of players playing in the Premier League football in this country who and B for talent not quite as genetically superior but a for attitude an attitude is something anybody can have anybody this is a time with a lot of talent but one that you haven't spent a great deal of time with how difficult is it to get cohesion between a lot of individuals who are very talented on their own well that's my most difficult task because with a national team you have so little time

to prepare them un like a club situation when you have them week in week out uh before this tournament I had 5 days with the boys in Los Angeles to get them ready and playing together but if when it does happen and it did happen against Canada they become quite an effective Force fast and move they will go for the steel and make sure you come out to receive the ball get the foul you're in control you're in control of your mind it's your mind so you decide what you think you can decide to improve

your attitude any day let's go to our well basketball um we won the kamo gold medal which was the first medal that England had ever won basketball that was very good uh still still talk to my captain every week Marshall here's another example of it the whistle blows a timeout is taken and half the New Zealand team arguing with the referee while England is talking with their coach deciding what to do in the last 20 seconds I'm very impressed with that young man he is going to be coaching England for a long long long time

to come Bill Bess outstanding discipline is the name of the game at this level isn't it B 20 seconds left in the game here we go race day is fun because there's a crowd there's cameras there's your family your friends and it's nice to do that what they don't see the people in the arena don't see is you on your own at 6:00 in the morning working out sweating [Applause] struggling and that's what makes Champions the ability to motivate themselves to do the work on their own that leads to success in the arena there's the

physical element you've got to take care of your strength speed stamina nutrition sleep Health there's the technical element and then you've got to devel the Tactical intelligence to compete follow a plan know your position on the field uh know how you relate to the members of the team know how to deal with certain situations in the game one n up or one n down and then there's the mental element that's building the confidence and belief that you are a champion that you can do this so it's it's that ined that change from being in the

dressing room the comfort zone to being in the tunnel before a big game game breathing in to going on the field and believing and having the confidence to do what you do well this team came here very much as underdogs England they weren't rated very highly before the tournament thus far everybody has been extremely impressed with the team and impressed with you how do you see your future as English coach if you lose life well first of all we prefer to be Underdog it's a nice sneaky position um I think this a start of of

what I'm hoping to achieve with the national team and tonight's going to give me a l more evidence on what kind of progress we're making because this is a real pressure situation uh for what is basically been quite a young thing if I teach the athlete how to avoid victim mentality how to slip into fight how to transfer to figh mentality they're going to have that in life when I got diagnosed with Parkinson's disease I was driving back from the hospital with my wife and she she rang my my second son Phillip in London and

said Philip your dad's got Parkinson's he's he's gone into victim mentality and I heard this booming laugh at the other end of the phone and he said I'll ring back in 10 minutes and he rang back and he and his wife Haley had Googled Parkinson's researched it and said dad we'll be up up this week it was Thursday and he said we'll be up this week weekend with the boys we have a family action plan meeting on handling Parkinson's and that was straight back into fighter mentality so there's a very big crossover between situations in

sport and situations in life I mean in a sense we're all high performers we all step up every day to earn a living to maintain relationships to take the responsibility of owning property to raise children we're all high performers so the lesson of my high performance in sport carries carry across into life it's it's quite difficult actually CU I deal with intangibles they're non-measurable so it's very hard for me to say I really helped that kid cuz but I get an instinctive feeling that maybe I I I I did help so I think it's hard

to for me to say out loud publicly that I really influenced that a it's because they're intangibles belief confidence um issues like raising your bottom line but I think I instinctively know I did offer some help the goal is to make better athletes and better people and I think that's the whole goal we we're there to make better athletes the one or 2% we talked about and better people people that are more able to write their own story in a better more positive productive way are you confident at any stage that you could win it

I think you give it your best shot it's a bit like Rocky one 2 and three you go out there you prepare and you give it your best shot and that's what we said today we had a team meeting we said we're going to give it our best shot I think it's going to be a good final I think it'll be I hope it'll going to be a fitting end to a great [Music] tournament if you lead A busy life like me and millions of other people around the world you might be struggling to get

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