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SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO HAVE A HAPPY MARRIAGE
I’m sitting in a cramped and uncomfortable seat on a U.S. Airways flight to Tampa, vowing to fly United next time. But my discomfort is made tolerable by my sweet wife, Nancy, sitting beside me. We’ve been married 30 years and went together for 6 years before that, so my pleasure doesn’t come from the [...]
RESIST REACTING EMOTIONALLY AFTER POINTS, an excerpt from “TENNIS: WINNING THE MENTAL MATCH”
Your game will tend to follow your emotions, positive ones producing good play and negative ones, bad play, so you need to control them rather than having them control you. The starting point for this (and probably the most useful single idea in this book) is the following: When a point ends have no feeling [...]
FOLLOW THE “GOLDEN RULE” OF TENNIS
BOOK EXCERPT FROM “TENNIS: WINNING THE MENTAL MATCH” The “Golden Rule” of tennis is the one simple rule that, if followed, will keep you out of more trouble than anything else. It is: Never do anything on court that doesn’t help you win. Granted, it sounds absurdly obvious, but few people consistently follow it. Adhering [...]
Arthur Ashe Personified Talent and Class
Arthur Ashe was a fantastic physical talent. He also had the strength of character to overcome emotional difficulties with logic and willpower and make a champion of himself. In his early years Arthur had a tendency to become discouraged when he got behind, and this caused him to lose matches that he might have won. [...]
PLAYING THE “MIDDLE” GAME
I was recently watching a match between a hard-hitting, talented junior player and a cagey senior. The junior hit every shot better than the senior yet was managing to lose anyway. I was puzzled. To all appearances the junior should have been winning in a walk, but wasn’t. What was happening? Careful observation provided the [...]
