Tag: It’s Personal

Owning It…

Written on February 15, 2012.

The road to greatness in sports often looks to us like an unbroken string of successes. We don’t often see or remember the failures nor do we remember how they were handled. We should. In the NFC Championship game three weeks ago, San Francisco 49’ers wide receiver and punt returner Kyle Williams mishandled two punts that led directly to a touchdown and a field goal…and indirectly to his team being eliminated from...

Serena Williams

Written on July 1, 2010.

It’s Personal… The Great Ones hate to lose more than they love to win Serena Williams was a perfectionist long before she was a serious competitor on the tennis court. “When I was 5 years old and in kindergarten, we had a project due and I was up late working on it, so late that my mom had to force me to go to bed,” she told me in an interview for SUCCESS magazine. “But I kept getting...

Danica Patrick

Written on May 1, 2009.

Ice In Their Veins… The truly great are risk-takers. They don’t fear making a mistake. She suffered her first real crash in 1994 at the age of 12, two years after she began go-kart racing competitively. Some said she was just lucky she hadn’t been in a crash before. Others thought that meant she wasn’t being aggressive enough. She was coming around the final turn of the national event in Charlotte,...