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Does not matter your age or team, this applies to everyone!
Never ever doubt yourself after one unplanned thing in a game happens. There is always going to be a bad hop, safe or out, SO or wild throw.
These things happen.
It happens in your team, national teams, NCAA College league, NPF. Nobody is perfect.
The thing is to learn how to deal with errors and be ready for next ball, next strike or steal. Maybe there is a little girl behind the fence watching you, maybe there is a teammate behind you who looks up to you and trusts you.
Will you be angry? Mad? Will you let them see that you are not feeling comfy standing there anymore? Or will you just hold your head up high and be ready for another bad hop to deal with?
If you ever talk to yourself after an error and there is "Little You" in your mind saying and wishing if someone else can play the last out, you are not doing a good thing. You have to strive for another chance to prove that you ARE worth it and that you are great. (Continued in graphic below.)
From top, Wesley Wolverines freshman #17 P/ 1B Juli Neel (Haddon Township, NJ), senior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Bear, DE), junior #13 UT Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA). |