What makes:• Sachin Tendulkar play cricket for more than 20 years?• Michael Schumacher comeback in 2009 after his retirement from F1 in 2006?• Lance Armstrong to hold the record by winning Tour de France for seven times despite of his testicular cancer?• Vishwanathan Anand the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: Knockout, Tournament, and Match?
Even though all these players have tremendous potential in them to play their respective sport, one thing that they have in common which separates them from the rest is their LOVE for the game.
Love your game and the team you play for: With love the most beautiful of all feelings, a relaxed mood prevails. When you are in love with your game, you attain that rare condition of bliss, in which the brain shuts off all unpleasant feelings and provides the highest energy. When this happens – you feel so strong that you believe you can attain any goal. This love for the game prevents you from getting burn out; hence you enjoy the game more and more. When you love your team – you believe and support each other, you stand united in any challenge or circumstances. It’s a different feeling and a different game. You float into the so-called seventh heaven, with a relaxed body and mind.
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Love for the game, one feeling that becomes a strong foundation for the consistent peak performance of the players. There is a difference between interest in the game and love for the game. This difference comes with the way you look at your game. If you love your game you also love the challenges in the game, you adjust yourself according to the changing nature of the game. You also start loving the efforts that you put, the sacrifices that you make be it the smallest like not going for a film with your friends because you have your practice session or the biggest is dedicating your life for the game. Now winning or losing is not the only goal but you focus more on improving your game. You don’t just play the game but you actually live the game. Once you start living your game you cannot leave the game because now that becomes your identity. Your name becomes the synonym for your game.
There are two important things that you should remember, one like you cannot force anyone to love somebody, you cannot force yourself to love the game, the feeling needs to come from within. I love the sport because my parents want me to love it or I love the sport because I want to be the Sir Don Bradman in my game, will never make you a champion. Second, you should not allow ego and excessive pride affect your relation with your game, and if it affects, your game leaves you and it moves ahead but a big spot on your career graph will always remain. I would not like to name such players as there is no point in remembering them but yes to give you a few examples think of the names who were caught in match fixing or doping, where the game has moved on and the players…..
Its love and only love for the country and for the game that motivates you to play better and better. It’s been rightly said:
Love the game.Love the game for the pure Joy of accomplishment.Love the game for everything it can teach you about yourself.Love the game for the feeling of belonging to a group endeavoring to do its best.Love the game for the challenge of working harder than you ever have at something and thenharder than that.Love the game because it takes all team members to give it life.Love the game because at its best, the game tradition will include your contributions.Love the game because you belong to a long line of fine athletes who have loved it.It is now your legacy.Love the game so much that you will pass on the your love of the game to another athletewho has seen your dedication, your work, your challenges, your triumphs…and then that athlete will, because of you, love the game.
Just love the game
