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11 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Andy Neary (Oct 11, 2023) in which an interviewer asks whether athletic performance is more mental or physical. Andy Neary responds that while skill and physical attributes matter, the mental component is larger — believing you belong and doing the unobserved daily work are what separate good from great.

NBA full of them, NFL full of them. Baseball, hey, you know, where are they? So what percentage of it is mental versus the physical component? How would you kind of see that ratio?
That's a great question. I'd say it's, I don't know the exact number, but it's definitely more mental. I mean, there were a couple guys you walked on the field with and you could hear the sound of the ball off their bat. You're like, that's special. Like, that doesn't come around all the time. You see, you see guys run.
Teach that. But for the majority of the guys are somewhere in the middle, right? And I think it's that mental ability to get to that level. Number one, believe in yourself that you belong there. And then it's, to me, it's about doing the things off the field when no one is watching.