Jenny Susser Quotes (4 Quotes)

Your psyche can really help you and it can really hurt you.

Emotional conditioning is crucial because once you get to any level in sport -- whether high school, division I collegiate, the nationals, the Olympics, or even as a weekend warrior -- everyone is pretty equal physically. It's those who can handle noise,

Every athlete has a piece of toughness. You need to be mentally tough to train hard because it hurts. And oftentimes, as a growing athlete, you make more mistakes than you don't. Frustration and injuries happen, and you've got to be tough to keep going.

If you take a couple of minutes to mentally prepare yourself -- that can help. The killer piece for a weekend warrior is expectation. It's really hard to go back after 20 years and play a sport again and people don't prepare for that and get disappointed.