Your perspective that we all should be grateful and graceful winners and losers is correct.
I preach that to all my aspiring tennis students before, during and after all tennis tournaments they compete in, up to and including at the professional level.
Your perspective that we all should be grateful and graceful winners and losers is correct.
I preach that to all my aspiring tennis students before, during and after all tennis tournaments they compete in, up to and including at the professional level.
As a former tennis professional, I can tell you as a professional athlete, you always remember the losses over the wins. The successful athletes are driven by “the fire in the belly” created by losing.
You learn much more from your mistakes and losses than from your wins.
I think Brady was reflecting upon that part of being a successful professional athlete.
I Strongly Beg To Differ that what you witnessed was the behavior and musings of a “sore winner”.
Those were the life lessons learned of one of the greatest winners of all time.
I agree with your point on Brady and the memory of losing over winning, but as a former USTA ranked tournament-level tennis player in my college days, who also holds a low handicap in golf, tennis is a very bad example of sportsmanship and decorum.
My personal experience is that the better a golfer gets, the more courteous and sportsmanlike he or she seems to be. In contrast, the better a tennis player gets, the bigger a dick he/she becomes - personally and on-court. That said, I never played at the pro level, but based on what I see on TV, in both the men's and the women's games, my observations from the lower ranks are probably not far off.
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Your perspective that we all should be grateful and graceful winners and losers is correct.
I preach that to all my aspiring tennis students before, during and after all tennis tournaments they compete in, up to and including at the professional level.
As a former tennis professional, I can tell you as a professional athlete, you always remember the losses over the wins. The successful athletes are driven by “the fire in the belly” created by losing.
You learn much more from your mistakes and losses than from your wins.
I think Brady was reflecting upon that part of being a successful professional athlete.
I Strongly Beg To Differ that what you witnessed was the behavior and musings of a “sore winner”.
Those were the life lessons learned of one of the greatest winners of all time.
I agree with your point on Brady and the memory of losing over winning, but as a former USTA ranked tournament-level tennis player in my college days, who also holds a low handicap in golf, tennis is a very bad example of sportsmanship and decorum.
My personal experience is that the better a golfer gets, the more courteous and sportsmanlike he or she seems to be. In contrast, the better a tennis player gets, the bigger a dick he/she becomes - personally and on-court. That said, I never played at the pro level, but based on what I see on TV, in both the men's and the women's games, my observations from the lower ranks are probably not far off.