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Chael Sonnen: “It’s OK To Lose, But Under-performing Will Haunt You…”

 

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Love him or hate him, Chael Sonnen will be remembered. He hit it right on the nail when he talked about competition. This can apply to everything we do:

It’s a two-man sport and you don’t know who is going to win. We can’t control who is going to win. You can only control how you compete.
“As an athlete, you’ll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That’s a real thing and it happens a lot when we don’t live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret.
“It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don’t go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.
“But the wins and losses, one guy is going to get his hand raised. That’s fine. But a lot of times we’ll worry about the outcome and spend so much time thinking, ‘I have to win, I have to win,’ that we don’t perform.”