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John Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was a legend basketball player and coach at UCLA. He was nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood,” since he led UCLA to ten NCAA national [...]

The day after Thanksgiving, I walked into a store and there were already Christmas decorations hanging everywhere. In fact, Starbucks even started using their holiday cups in the middle of [...]

As a player, coach, and athlete, it is always very anxiety provoking to face an opponent that you know is better than you. A lot of thoughts and self-doubt often go racing through your mind: [...]

One of those elusive concepts that is easier to discuss than it is to achieve. Focus and attention is often difficult since many of us have a thousand ideas racing through our mind at one time: [...]

Nature versus nurture has been a long heated debate in the scientific community. Are people simply born with certain qualities? Or can the way people are raised effect their development later in [...]

Change it up and try something new! The majority of us fall into a routine exercise regiment. We tend to stick with it like clockwork whether it is a daily run, walk, or class at the gym. The [...]

Most people are afraid of the scary, and ominous F word. The truth is that failure is something we all are going to experience at some point in our lives. Even if you are a perfectionist, [...]

Over the years I’ve heard numerous stories of how sports psychology has not had the impact that athletes, coaches and administrators thought it would. Several of my elite athletes have said [...]

Nothing happens without the brains involvement. The brain fires to the muscles telling them how to respond. Flow There are moments as an athlete that you are in a state of flow. In that state [...]

Several times at this years London Olympics I’ve heard stories about athletes who are terminating their athletic careers. Olympian’s spend a lot of time training. It takes a lot of [...]