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Article: Shooting perfection: some amateur sport coaches demand near perfection from their players, 100 per cent of the time.
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- What Magazine
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- May 1, 1997
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In professional sports leagues like the National Hockey League, when players don't perform to expected standards, they are benched or ultimately traded. Fans have come to expect that. After all, they want their team to win. But there are those not destined to be athletic superstars. They play for fun. How do they fare in the race to win?
Sports psychologist Saul Miller remembers one youngster who was on a baseball team but was never allowed to play. When the father spoke to the coach, he was assured the boy would play in the next game. He never did. Unfortunately for this boy, the hunger to win left him, so to speak, in the dugout.
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