Think Like a Warrior: The Five Inner Beliefs That Make You Unstoppable (Sports for the Soul Book 1)

by Darrin Donnelly

“For a man to be confident in a task, he must know that he has done everything possible to properly prepare for it. He will then exude confidence.

“Another way to increase confidence is to raise the bar of expectations for yourself and your team.

If you refuse to settle for anything less than your best, you’ll be amazed at ...

“If you want to raise confidence, raise expectations.”

“Studying people who have already done what you wish to do is another way to quickly and easily build confidence.

Learn from those who have gone before you,

learn how they did it, learn from both their successes and their failures.

“Everyone needs to have someone they trust telling them they believe in them.

the most important person who can tell you this is you.

You have to tell yourself again and again that you have what ...

There is tremendous power i...

the right self-talk quickly produces se...

Always tell yourself that you...

make it a habit of visualizing your future success,”

“Use your imagination to see yourself achieving your dreams.

dream vividly and think about what it will look and feel like when you ...

lose confidence

dwell on past mistakes.

fear is the enemy of confidence and faith.”

there’s a difference between overconfidence and arrogance.

Egotism stems from fear.

Fear that you could be wrong, fear of not wanting to face the truth, fear of failing, fear of losing what you have. A man builds up a false confidence, a false ego, t...

“No reason to dwell on past

learn from those mistakes.

There’s a precious balance between being confident and humbly recognizing when yo...

It’s time to achieve greatness.

A man can be as great as he wants to be if he has sincere confidence, courage, determination, and faith.

“It starts with always choosing fai...

make it a habit of choosing faith...

fear that any success I’m having will be pulled out from under me.

The source of my faith and confidence has always been rooted in something even more powerful than the things we’ve already talked about. Without this source, I wouldn’t have accomplished a thing.”

“My faith in a higher power, my faith in God, has always been the center of my life and the source of my strength

and confidence,” Lombardi said.

when we place our dependence on God, we no longer have to worry.

This type of faith allows us to be bold, even recklessly bold, in the pursuit of our dreams.

We can know with certainty that if we give our absolute best, God will take care of the rest.

There is no match for this type of confidence.”

Many people who claim they’ve given their best have actually given far less.

They tend to minimize the ‘do your best’ part of the equation and maximize the ‘let God take care of the rest’ part. It doesn’t work like that.

“I believe we all have a moral obligation to use the talents God has given us and to pursue the dreams...

that means working extremely hard to enhance those talents and chase those dreams. We must see ourselves a...

“You see, our skills can only be honed and our character can only be improved by push...

By overcoming the struggle and adversity that comes from trying to become the very...

reaching our limit and then pushing even further. That is how we give our best. That is...

“If you give anything less than your best, you’re not only cheating yourself, you’re ...

Most people don’t understand what it means to give their very best.

They may hope and pray and call that faith, but all along God is waiting for them to get off the couch and start boldly pursuing what it is they desire.

me, I know the importance of prayer.

never expected those prayers to replace the need for bold and aggressive action on my part.

prayed for guidance and strength and for God to take care of the things that I couldn’t.