by Tdarcos » Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:30 am
pinback wrote:Well, she's getting her sweet Canadian ass handed to her in the Wimbledon finals. I feel like all of this attention we put on her made her nervous.
Oh please. Being seen by the public is part of the "cost of doing business" for a professional sports player, and you take it as being something that comes with the territory. (For guys it's often a great source of young groupies for tawdry one-night-stands.)
Being seen by millions of people didn't prevent Tiger Woods from being able to be a very good golf player. Getting attacked by his (now ex-) wife for cheating on him and running his Mercedes into a fire hydrant, on the other hand...
To put it bluntly, I strongly expect most sports players, if they're any good, either don't notice the audience or put it out of their consciousness. It's the also rans that make excuses for their failures, other than simply "I wasn't very good that day," or "I sucked."
[quote="pinback"]Well, she's getting her sweet Canadian ass handed to her in the Wimbledon finals. I feel like all of this attention we put on her made her nervous.[/quote]
Oh please. Being seen by the public is part of the "cost of doing business" for a professional sports player, and you take it as being something that comes with the territory. (For guys it's often a great source of young groupies for tawdry one-night-stands.)
Being seen by millions of people didn't prevent Tiger Woods from being able to be a very good golf player. Getting attacked by his (now ex-) wife for cheating on him and running his Mercedes into a fire hydrant, on the other hand...
To put it bluntly, I strongly expect most sports players, if they're any good, either don't notice the audience or put it out of their consciousness. It's the also rans that make excuses for their failures, other than simply "I wasn't very good that day," or "I sucked."