Why Players Don’t Make It

Key Points

• The drive has to come from within
• Players that don’t make it usually aren’t willing to put in the sheer amount of work necessary
• Focus on “beating yourself every day”
• The days when you don’t want to practice or you’re not feeling great, you have to find a reason to put the work in
• As a player or a coach, you have to figure out the training load you can take without breaking
• Consistently training hard and smart is better than overtraining, burning yourself out and getting injured
• It’s not the amount of hours you spend on court, it’s the amount of hours your mind is present when training
• Go as hard as you can for as long as you can and try to increase that over the months and years